Space Shuttle: The Unsung Hero of Space Station Construction

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]The shuttle's been invaluable to allowing us to build station. The components that were delivered to space by the shuttle, there's no other way we could have really got those elements to to orbit other than through the space shuttle.

[00:00:11]And also the space shuttle's been more than just a deliverer of these elements.

[00:00:13]It's been our work platform. It brings its own robotic arm to help with assembly. It brings its own airlock, which we used early on for the crews to to go do spacewalks from. So, and it also brings a working crew. The seven crew members are They're there to help and assist in the assembly operation.

[00:00:30]So, so each assembly flight was unique in its own right. The shuttle not only brought the hardware, but it brought the workers. It brought the work platform to work off of. And it was It was the asset that made station possible. If it wasn't for shuttle, we could not have built the station that that exists today.