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Shuttle With Aft Cargo Carrier
wired.com 2 weeks, 5 days agoBefore the January 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, NASA and its contractors studied many ways that the Shuttle system could be augmented to perform new tasks. After Challenger, NASA abandoned many planned Shuttle missions as unsafe and augmentation planning all but ended. Space historian David S. F. Portree looks at a pre-Challenger proposal which could have more than doubled the shuttle's cargo space.










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