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Facts about NASA Space Shuttle orbiters
April 14th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world’s first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world.
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