Space Shuttle

NASA's reusable orbiter that defined an era of spaceflight/Spacecraft

The Space Shuttle was the world's first reusable crewed spacecraft, flying 135 missions between 1981 and 2011. The full stack consisted of the orbiter, two solid rocket boosters, and an external fuel tank that together produced more thrust at liftoff than a million sports cars. It deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, built the International Space Station, and proved that landing a spacecraft on a runway like a glider is entirely possible, if somewhat terrifying.