who were the key members in developing the shuttle program?
Spiro Agnew,Richard Nixon
Space Shuttle program
Before the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs. In 1969, President Richard Nixon formed a Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro Agnew. This group outlined ambitious post-Apollo missions centered on a large permanently crewed space station, a small reusable logistics vehicle that would support it, and ultimately a human mission to Mars. Smaller goals included a variety of space vehicles for moving spacecraft around in orbit.

Presenting the plans to Nixon, Agnew was told that the administration would not commit to a Mars mission, and limited activity to low Earth orbit for the immediate future. He was then told to select one of the two remaining proposals. After some debate between the station and the vehicle, the vehicle was chosen; suitably designed, such a spacecraft could perform some longer-duration missions and thus fill some of the goals of the station, and over the longer run, could help lower the cost of access to space 
where does the space shuttle take off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida can you describe this object? The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program what was the purpose of this program? To  accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo what was the cost for the program? The per-launch cost was $1.642 billion (in 2012). what was the groundwork done before the launch of the above mentioned object? he SRBs were assembled and attached to the external tank on the MLP. The orbiter vehicle was prepared at the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) and transferred to the VAB, where a crane was used to rotate it to the vertical orientation and mate it to the external tank can you name a few other programs that were launched from the above mentioned center? UNANSWERABLE how was the program tested before the launch? It underwent flight testing with the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a Boeing 747 can you describe the surroundings of the place where the center is located? UNANSWERABLE
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Space Shuttle program [SEP] Conception and development
Before the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs. In 1969, President Richard Nixon formed a Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro Agnew. This group outlined ambitious post-Apollo missions centered on a large permanently crewed space station, a small reusable logistics vehicle that would support it, and ultimately a human mission to Mars. Smaller goals included a variety of space vehicles for moving spacecraft around in orbit. Presenting the plans to Nixon, Agnew was told that the administration would not commit to a Mars mission, and limited activity to low Earth orbit for the immediate future.