By Karl Tate
SPACE.com
posted: 02 November 2010
12:05 pm ET
NASA's space shuttles are amazing flying machines. They launch like rocket, land like airplanes and then hit the hangar for a pit stop before turning around and doing it again.
Now, nearly 30 years after the first space shuttle – Columbia – blasted off for orbit, NASA is retiring the reusable space plane fleet to make way for a new space plan aimed at asteroids and Mars. The shuttles will fly their final missions in 2011. Here's a look at complicated flying machine at the heart of NASA's Space Transportation System (STS): The Space Shuttle.
Source Space.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
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