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The space shuttles have been retired and are no longer launched.

There is one point in the launch trajectory called "throttle back" where the shuttle is under maximum stress. If they did not throttle back the engines at this point and continued accelerating, the maximum design stress limits would soon be exceeded resulting in structural failure and loss of the vehicle. However less than a minute after "throttle back" the stresses drop due to lower atmospheric density and they "throttle up" again to maximum engine thrust on all engines (104% of original engine design thrust).

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