Space Shuttle Can Still Be Used To Service Hubble

The space shuttle was sold to the American public and developed in the 1970s as the U.S.' all-purpose, national Space Transportation System (hence the STS in shuttle mission numbers), able to launch satellites of all sorts, and serve as an orbital laboratory and a base for astronauts to service or...

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