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Winged Orbiter with a Vertical Tail Fin

The winged, reusable orbiter vehicles of the Space Shuttle program, which launched atop a rocket stack and returned to Earth as a glider. Belongs here: any of the individual orbiter airframes built for the program. Does not belong here: other crewed vehicles that return by capsule rather than by winged glide, grouped under Crewed Spacecraft.

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