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NASA retired it in 2011 after 30 years, mainly due to cost and safety concerns after the Challenger and Columbia disasters. the orbiters are now museum pieces around the US.

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after retirement, NASA relied on Russian Soyuz rockets to get astronauts to the ISS for almost a decade, until SpaceX's Crew Dragon took over that job in 2020.

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