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How NASA uses the rail system to launch shuttles into space

I really like trains. So seeing how trains help bring another favorite item of mine — the space shuttle — into space is rather interesting. I had no idea the rail system was so intertwined and important to space shuttle … Continue reading

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Solid rocket boosters going up and then coming down

Here is the Space Shuttle Atlantis with a camera attached to its solid rocket boosters, giving us a view of the ride up into the beginning of space and then back down into the ocean.

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