The shuttle program was NASA astronauts’ ticket to space for 30 years.
President Nixon’s announcement last week of the decision to begin development of a space shuttle system may prove to be nearly as crucial to the future of the manned space program as the 1961 Kennedy challenge to land a man on the moon. Beginning in 1981, five reusable spacecraft carried out many important missions, including helping to build the International Space Station and carrying theinto orbit.
. Last April, NASA announced it had tapped SpaceX to ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the upcoming
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