Shuttle's end begins international future
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When first launched in 1981, the Space Shuttle carried with it not only the USA's aspirations of a bold future of spaceflight as a normal activity, but also the pride of a nation that, since conquering the Moon, had been battered by the self-doubt of the post-Vietnam 1970s while its space programme drifted along, seemingly without aim....
Shuttle's end begins international future