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Space Transportation System - January 5, 1972

Jan 5, 2021

On this day in 1972, the Nixon administration approved America's next generation space vehicle, the Space Transportation System, popularly known as the space shuttle. Find out how the new NASA hardware influenced years of science fiction that followed.

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