The Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is the only reusable spacecraft in the world. Meaning that it can go into space and come back down, then be used again. The space shuttle carried up to 8 people on board. NASA built a few of the space shuttles, including Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Two of which were destroyed. The Challenger blew up when it was taking off, and Columbia disintegrated in the atmosphere. But over all the shuttles have been very successful over the years. Most of the missions that the space shuttles have gone on are to the space station. When coming down the space shuttle is protected from burning up in the atmosphere by little tiles that are heat and fire resistant. Once in range of a shuttle carrier plane it gripes onto the body of the plane. the plane carries the shuttle down back to mission control.
This is a video of the Challenger blowing up when taking off