The shuttles have not only launched 355 people into orbit, but also parts of the International Space Station (ISS), which would not have been built without them, and the Hubble Space Telescope, which measures over 13 meters. The last one landed fifteen years ago, and the United States lost the opportunity to send an astronaut into space without Russian help until 2020, when American astronauts went to the ISS in a ship from the private company S…
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The shuttles have not only launched 355 people into orbit, but also parts of the International Space Station (ISS), which would not have been built without them, and the Hubble Space Telescope, which measures over 13 meters. The last one landed fifteen years ago, and the United States lost the opportunity to send an astronaut into space without Russian help until 2020, when American astronauts went to the ISS in a ship from the private company S…