Ten Years After the Columbia Accident - A List of Shuttle-Station Posts http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Space Shuttle was conceived as a way of cheaply ferrying crews and cargo to an Earth-orbiting space station. Shuttle and Station were meant to work together to carry out a well-defined mission, much as the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM) spacecraft were meant to work together to land astronauts on the moon. Shuttle-Station's mission was to enable astronauts to conduct long-term research in space. Such research would, it was expected, yield practical benefits, abstract scientific knowledge, improved space technology, experience with the physical and psychological effects of long-duration stays in space, and countermeasures for those effects that would make possible piloted voyages beyond the moon.



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