It takes five years for a space shuttle to be built for a mission. It can cost an estimated amount of $2 billion.
They planned that each shuttle could make 100 flights.
From April 1981 to July 2011 when the Space Shuttle was retired.
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The space shuttle was built to be able to fly 100 times each before being retired. The space shuttle with the most flights is Discovery with 36
Discovery is NASA's oldest space shuttle and it has been in flight for more than 25 years. Currently, it has traveled 148,221,675 miles.
A space shuttle has over 1,000 buttons and swiches.
The 5 Space Shuttles flew in space 134 times. One mission didn't make it to space.
As long as it is repaired properly, a space shuttle can make trips to and from space forever. They were built for just that purpose. However, they will not do this because NASA is retiring the space shuttles this year (2010).
There were nine space shuttle flights in 1987.
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Yes, Space Shuttles carried people into space for many years. Today they have been retired and are no longer in use.
The space shuttle Columbia completed 27 successful space flights, not including its final flight whereupon it was destroyed in the Earth's atmosphere. It was the only shuttle apart from the Challenger never to dock with the Mir Space Station or the International Space Station.