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Originally Posted by llatpog
Is the US and NASA the only country that has something like the Shuttle? A ship that can bring people into space...and also bring people back?
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It's the only such winged craft that takes people into orbit, but there are other spacecraft people use to enter space and return.
For history and plans, governmental and private, orbital and suborbital, see
Wikipedia: Manned spacecraft
Besides the soon-ending US space shuttle, the other two currently active orbital manned craft national programs are Russia's Soyuz (
Wikipedia), frequently taking passengers to the ISS, and China's Shenzhou (
Wikipedia).