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BETWEEN Columbia's first mission on April 12, 1981, to the return of Atlantis to Florida's Kennedy Space Centre tomorrow, there have been 133 space shuttle flights costing $196bn and 14 lives.
The missions have helped service and build the International Space Station, the satellite base from where the technology for a mission to Mars might one day be developed.See the full content of this document
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Is Space Travel Shuttling Off Into Deep, Dark History? With Manned Space Travel, Landing a Man On the Moon in 1969. Focusing Minds On Issues Closer to Home
They've also carried out manned servicing missions to the Hubble telescope to help it produce the most detailed images ever produced of the universe's most distant objects.
All worthy achievements i...See the full content of this document
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