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Can a space shuttle be used twice?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Yes. All space shuttle orbiters have been used multiple times. Space Shuttle Discovery has launched on 36 missions as of March 2009 and is scheduled for a total of 39 missions before the program is retired.

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