Shuttle Key-Ring

Product Description: This Shuttle is made from lead-free pewter and is a 3D miniature model of a space shuttle. It is supplied on a quality key-chain. The shuttle key-ring is presented on a Space key-ring header card, that has an image of the Earth’s atmosphere with the Moon above on the front.

Information: The first space shuttle was launched in 1981. Conventional one-use rockets had been the only way to send astronauts or cargoes into space. The United States developed a re-usable system called the Space Transportation System (STS), or Shuttle for short. It was launched like a conventional rocket but returned to Earth like a plane. In 1988 the Soviets launched a shuttle called Buran. This crewless shuttle flew two orbits of Earth and returned by automatic landing.