The Space shuttles was made for astronauts and cargo to be taking to space and and back to Earth. The space shuttle takes as many as seven astronauts to space and back to Earth. The first space shuttle flight blasted in to space in 1981,Nasa will quit flying the shuttle in 2011. Sally ride was the first teacher that went to space but in the way up it blow up people thought that they served but they did not. She was the first teacher that was going to go to space.