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==On screen==

The first major appearance of a space shuttle on the big screen was the [[Pan Am]] "Orion" shuttle that dazzled audiences with its ballet type flight manuevers in Stanley Kubrick's epic space drama "2001: A Space Odyssey"(1968). In Kubrick's film, one of the first to attempt to portray space flight as realistically as possible, the Orion shuttle is used to transport scientist Heywood Floyd from the earth to a giant revolving space station. Reportedly, Kubrick went to great effort to portray the appearance of the shuttle (at that time in the early design phase at NASA) as accurately as possible, relying on expert technical advisors from NASA.

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In the anime [[Magical Project S]], villain Pixy Misa steals the shuttle [[Endeavour]] and uses it to chase after Pretty Sammy.

==In games==

In the video games [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Pokémon Red, Blue]] and [[Pokémon Yellow|Yellow]] for the [[Gameboy]] the space shuttle ''Columbia'' can be found in the space museum in [[Pewter city]], though following the disaster, new edited versions of the game have removed the ''Columbia'' and replaced it with the ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]''.

==In print==

In [[Larry Niven]] and [[Jerry Pournelle]]'s alien invasion book [[Footfall]], all the shuttles except Enterprise (Endeavour did not exist at the time of writing) are used as spacefighters launched from a carrier spacecraft derived from [[Project Orion]] to attack the alien mothership. The shuttles used External Tanks as microwave and laser shields.