Shuttle Required A Lot Of Testing
Credit: NASA
Building a spaceplane to fly back and forth to orbit like an airliner proved a lot more difficult than even the most hard-nosed engineers expected, and the result was a lot less capable than their bosses had hoped. It’s probably too early to know whether that lesson from development of the space...
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