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Space Shuttle Cutaway

The Space Shuttle was the first reusable human-rated spacecraft. Designed to take off like a rocket and maneuver in space like a spaceship, it can return to Earth and land on a runway like an airplane. The idea of a winged spacecraft that could make airplane-like landings goes back to the early 1960s. The North American X-15 program, the McDonnell ASSET re-entry vehicle and the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar project, explored the concept of a reusable spacecraft. But, it wasn't until after Project Apollo ended that NASA began development of a spacecraft that would serve as an Earth-to-orbit space truck. 
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Unique identifier BI21708 
Boeing ID dac49843 
Type Image 
Size 5998px × 4798px   82MB 
License type RM 
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