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Why The Space Shuttle Only Launched Three Deep Space Missions

The Space Shuttle was "America's Ride To Space" for 3 decades, it launched over 100 times, and yet over that long career it only launched 3 interplanetary missions - Magellan, Galileo and Ulysses. And all of those were launched in 2 years, after that everything the Shuttle carried remained in Earth orbit. Multiple factors came together to limit this: The Shuttle was late and expensive The Reagan administration cancelled most interplanetary missions Challenger's destruction changed NASA's policy requiring all launches on shuttle. Magellan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magella...) Galileo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo...) Ulysses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses...) Follow me on Twitter for more updates:   / djsnm   I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:   / discord   If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon   / scottmanley