Within hours of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, hundreds of debris from the shuttle were listed on eBay as prices soared
The Space Shuttle was designed in the hopes that spacefaring would become cheap, reliable and everyday. Instead, maintaining the fleet took months of arduous technical work and instead of flying once a week, the shuttle made on average fewer than five flights a year
Latent herpes virus reactivation has been demonstrated in astronauts during shuttle (10–16 days) and International Space Station of 180 days or more flights
