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GRAPHIC: NASA's Space Shuttle –

From Top to Bottom
By Karl Tate
SPACE.com Space Trivia
posted: 02 November 2010
12:05 pm ET

NASA's space shuttles are amazing flying machines. They launch like rocket, land like
airplanes and then hit the hangar for a pit stop before turning around and doing it again.

Now, nearly 30 years after the first space shuttle – Columbia – blasted off for orbit, NASA is Multimedia Features
retiring the reusable space plane fleet to make way for a new space plan aimed at asteroids
and Mars. The shuttles will fly their final missions in 2011. Here's a look at complicated flying
machine at the heart of NASA's Space Transportation System (STS): The Space Shuttle.

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spacefire wrote: posted 02 November 2010, 10:33 am ET

alright, farewell, adieu, time to move on to lifting bodies

atop fully reusable winged first stages.

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