Shuttle’s Legacy Will Endure For Decades

Credit: Nasa Johnson Space Center
Even after the three surviving space shuttle orbiters have gathered a few decades of dust in their respective museums, mid-century spacefarers from around the Earth will be using tools and techniques for operating in space that were incubated on the historic U.S. spaceplanes. The 30-year shuttle era...

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