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with you, thanks. jenna: captain altman, a former nasa shuttle pilot. captain, as we take in the scenes in virginia tell us why these two shuttles are so significant to our country s history and the history of space exploration? basically the enter prize was the test vehicle that paved the way for the shuttle flights to come. it proved we could take a vehicle, a reusable vehicle, and land it, have pilots fly it to a precision touchdown on a runway. discovery then took that concept and put it to work. it was the workhorse of the shuttle program. flying all those missions. doing space science on orbit and also the ultimate assembly task, putting a space station together in pieces that were flown up in the payload bay of all the orbiters. it was just an amazing challenge engineering wise to build a space station the sigh we have today and we couldn t have done it without the space shuttle

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