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| | Space Shuttle Article, SpaceShuttle Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | NASA 's Space Shuttle program is an ongoing endeavor, started in thelate 1960s, that has created the world's first partially reusable space launch system, and the first spacecraft capableof carrying large satellites both to and from low Earth orbit. |
 | | This paperwork results from the fact that, unlike current expendable launch vehicles, the Space Shuttle is manned and has no escape systems to speak of andtherefore any accident which would result in the loss of booster would also result in the loss of the crew which is, of course,unacceptable. |
 | | The Space Shuttle consists of four main components; the reuseable orbiter itself, a large expendable external fuel tank, and a pair of reusable solid-fuelbooster rockets. |
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