Space Shuttle Gliding in Orbit: Orbiter gliding peacefully over satellite arrays and constellations. Black outlines on a white background, ready to print and colour.

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Space Shuttle Gliding in Orbit coloring page

Orbiter gliding peacefully over satellite arrays and constellations. It is drawn as clean black outlines on white and centred on an A4 page with a 12 mm margin, so your printer will not clip an edge.

It mixes broad areas with finer detail, which works for school-age children and adults alike. Colouring it in here splits the drawing into 152 separate areas — click the bucket into any of them, or switch to the brush for shading that has no outline of its own.

Subject
Shuttle
Difficulty
Medium
Fillable areas
152
Page size
A4 and US Letter
Resolution
300 DPI, pure black and white
Formats
PDF, PNG, WebP

A closer look at Space Shuttle Gliding in Orbit

A shuttle orbiter banks through open space with its delta wings and tail fin in view, a small satellite drifting below and behind it, two ringed planets at opposite corners, and a light scatter of dots across an otherwise empty page.

152 areas and one of the most open sheets in the collection — a lot of this page is nothing at all. The orbiter's black thermal tiles along the nose and wing edges are marked out in the line work, and following them is what makes it a shuttle rather than a paper plane.

White fuselage with charcoal tile panels underneath and along the nose, and that is the whole vehicle. Because the page is so empty, this is the one in the collection that most needs its background filled — an ink field with the dots left white transforms it.

Print it at 100% rather than “Fit to page” — the 12 mm margin is already in the PDF. The printing guide covers paper weight, ink and the print-dialog settings that matter.

Colour Space Shuttle Gliding in Orbit in your browser

Pick a colour, then click inside any outlined area to flood it. The brush and eraser handle the parts that have no outline, and Undo goes back as far as you like. Everything happens on your device — the sheet is never uploaded, and your progress is remembered here so you can come back and finish.

On a phone or tablet, open Space Shuttle Gliding in Orbit in the studio — the same canvas with the page around it cleared away, so the sheet fills the screen. Your colours carry over either way.

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