This week's Flight International (23 November) has one of the best-looking, most comprehensive feature packages on the Space Shuttle you will see.
Compiled by our US team, the 13-page feature looks at the legacy of the programme as it reaches the end of its life after 30 years, and at what will replace it.
Test pilot Mike Gerzanics experiences what it's like to "fly" the Shuttle...or at least a Shuttle simulator in Houston. Artist Tim Bicheno-Brown has done detailed sideviews of each ship. We also have a 30-year timeline tracking the Shuttle's progress from its maiden flight on 12 April 1981 to the most-recent, and possibly last ever landing, Atlantis's touch down in May.
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