Editing Space Shuttle program (section)

==Accomplishments==
[[File:1989 s34 Galileo Deploy 5.jpg|thumb|upright|''Galileo'' floating free in space after release from Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', 1989]]
[[File:Endeavour docked to ISS.jpg|thumb|upright|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' docked with the [[International Space Station]] (ISS), 2011]]

Space Shuttle missions have included:

*[[Spacelab]] missions<ref name=NASA28>{{cite web|url=https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/msad15mar99_1/|title=Spacelab joined diverse scientists and disciplines on 28 Shuttle missions|publisher=NASA|date=March 15, 1999|access-date=February 11, 2011}}</ref> Including:
**Science<ref name=NASA28/>
**Astronomy<ref name=NASA28/>
**Crystal growth<ref name=NASA28/>
**Space physics<ref name=NASA28/>
*Construction of the [[International Space Station]] (ISS)
*Crew rotation and servicing of [[Mir]] and the [[International Space Station]] (ISS)
*Servicing missions, such as to repair the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST) and orbiting satellites
*Human experiments in [[low Earth orbit]] (LEO)
*Carried to low Earth orbit (LEO):
**The [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST)
**Components of the [[International Space Station]] (ISS)
**Supplies in [[Spacehab|Spacehab modules]] or [[Multi-Purpose Logistics Module]]s
**The [[Long Duration Exposure Facility]]
**The [[Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite]]
**The [[Compton Gamma Ray Observatory]]
**The [[Earth Radiation Budget Satellite]]
**The [[Mir Docking Module|Mir Shuttle Docking Node]]
*Carried satellites with a booster, such as the [[Payload Assist Module]] (PAM-D) or the [[Inertial Upper Stage]] (IUS), to the point where the booster sends the satellite to:
**A higher Earth [[orbit]]; these have included:
***[[Chandra X-ray Observatory]]
***The first six [[TDRS]] satellites
***Two DSCS-III (Defense Satellite Communications System) communications satellites in one mission
***A [[Defense Support Program]] satellite
**An interplanetary mission; these have included:
***[[Magellan probe|''Magellan'']]
***[[Galileo (spacecraft)|''Galileo'']]
***[[Ulysses probe|''Ulysses'']]

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Image:STS-73 landing.jpg|U.S. Shuttle ''Columbia'' landing at the end of [[STS-73]], 1995
File:Spacelab 2 mission.jpg|Space art for the [[Spacelab 2]] mission, showing some of the various experiments in the payload bay. Spacelab was a major European contribution to the Space Shuttle program
File:STS-61-A compartment trainer.jpg|European astronauts prepare for their Spacelab mission, 1984.
File:Astro2 sts67 big.jpg|SpaceLab hardware included a pressurized lab, but also other equipment allowing the Orbiter to serve as a crewed space observatory (''Astro-2'' mission, 1995, shown)
File:Upgrading Hubble during SM1.jpg|Astronauts [[Thomas D. Akers]] and [[Kathryn C. Thornton]] install corrective optics on the Hubble Space Telescope during [[STS-61]].
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