Australia's Guide to Space

Space shuttles are, of course, space crafts that are designed to be blasted out into outer space, carrying astronauts or cosmonauts (people who are specially-trained to serve in outer space missions designed to allow for orbital observations as well as orbital maintenance of, say, satellites). Space shuttles are known to be able to carry five to seven astronauts each in one launch, though there have been documented cases of eight passengers being carried out into space by a space shuttle. It is interesting to note that space shuttles are effectively the original spacecrafts, the machines that allow us to observe and explore the space outside of our planet. Of course, the space shuttles as we know them now cannot take human beings very far from the planet as of yet, but this does not mean that it will not be possible in the future. The technology for creating space shuttles is being improved as we speak, and one can't really, truly stop progress such as this.

Out of all the aspects of outer space research, this aspect is quite possibly one that the Australians are most excited about; the improvement of technology for space shuttles can be a ticket for people to be able to get further into space than they have ever gone before. Given the Australian thirst for adventure, this may very well succeed.