Space Shuttles

Space Shuttles

The term Space Shuttles refers to partly or fully reusable launch vehicles for regularly placing payloads into low earth orbit.

See:
* Buran program - former Russian partially reusable launch vehicle
* Space Shuttle program - NASA's partially reusable launch vehicle
* Reusable launch vehicles for a discussion of other planned space shuttles


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