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And since she now wants to be an astronaut, she likes space and looking at the space shuttle.

Officials from the city and the Columbia Memorial hope the space shuttle will continue to draw attention and lead to increased visitors.

“I was like, what the f— is a podcast? It sounded like building a space shuttle back then,” says Pazsitzky.

When their space shuttle fleet was retired in 2011, the US spent a decade relying solely on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to transport its crew and cargo - a situation Nasa admitted was far from ideal.

To put that in context: Nasa's biggest rocket - the Space Launch System, or SLS - produces 39 meganewtons off the pad, and that's over 20% more than the old space shuttle system could generate.