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Space Shuttle program
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Space Shuttle program
The
Space Shuttle program
, officially called the
Space Transportation System
(
STS
), was the
United States
government's
manned
launch vehicle
program from 1981 to 2011, administered by
NASA
and officially beginning in 1972. The
Space Shuttle
system—composed of an
orbiter
launched with two reusable
solid rocket boosters
and a disposable
external fuel tank
—usually carried up to eight
astronauts
and up to of
payload
into
low Earth orbit
(LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would
re-enter
the
Earth
's atmosphere and land like a
glider
at either the
Kennedy Space Center
or
Edwards Air Force Base
.
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