The Space Shuttle functioned as the first reusable space vehicle and became the workhorse for building out low Earth orbit infrastructure. It carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit and later returned with a crew to repair it, and it was used to help construct the International Space Station.
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1:08:18Um it transformed low Earth orbit infrastructure. It allowed for stuff like the Hubble Space Telescope to go up and then when the Hubble was broken to send up another crew with the space shuttle to go and fix it. It allowed for the construction of the International Space Station um low Earth orbit and it's the first reusable space vehicle. If you watch uh the clip that we did on the top 10 most expensive uh NASA missions or projects, this was one of them which we talked about greatly. We may need to get another Lego set of the STS to add to our Artemis Lego set that we have here with us in the studio. 1981
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