S1 E1 ∙

NASA engineers reveal how they pushed technology's limits when they created the Shuttle; a historian suggests the original intention for the Shuttle was to use it for spying missions.

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S1 E1

NASA engineers reveal how they pushed technology's limits when they created the Shuttle.

S1 E2

Following the Challenger disaster, the Shuttle was saved by the fall of the Soviet Union.