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The Commonwealth Space Program was founded by T_Rex1525 in early September of 2013. The idea of building a rocket was jokingly purposed by Stormsky. T_Rex took it as a challenge, and scouted out a location to build a 1:1 scale Saturn V. A mountain side location right outside the former outside wall of the Commonwealth was chosen, around -2555, +3434. Early on, the CWSP became associated with CASE, Civcraft Aerospace Science and Exploration, founded by Baragoiun of [[Orion]] and T_Rex1525 of The [[Civcraft2:Commonwealth|Commonwealth]]. Since then, CASE has gone inactive and the CWSP moved to the forefront of space builds in the world of Civcraft.

In March of 2014, /u/T-Rex1525 hinted towards the construction of a space shuttle with [http://i.imgur.com/NHsvkDn.png this picture] posted to the Commonwealth's subreddit. It wasn't until early April that work began on the shuttle itself. It was completed a few days later. Again, the spacecraft is built at a 1:1 scale of the real life counterpart. The Shuttle was not built to represent a specific Shuttle in the American fleet, but the paint scheme resembles that of either the Challenger or Discovery. The Shuttle required nearly 500 snow blocks and over 450 black wool, along with approximately 200 quartz blockblocks materials. In contrast to the Saturn V, the Shuttle uses dispensers and wool as the main components to represent the engines. The real life Shuttle has two Orbital Maneuvering Thrusters, one on either side of the fuselage. The Civcraft version has each thruster represented with two dispensers and netherbrick stairs, instead of one. This is just how the placement worked out with Minecraft's blocks. The Shuttle is completed as of April 2014, but the interior is empty. A small museum dedicated to the real life counterparts will be located within the Shuttle.