International Space Station Tour(youtube.com)

  Taken on its own merits, the Shuttle gives the impression 
  of a vehicle designed to be launched repeatedly to 
  near-Earth orbit, tended by five to seven passengers with 
  little concern for their personal safety, and requiring 
  extravagant care and preparation before each flight, with 
  an almost fetishistic emphasis on reuse. Clearly this 
  primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, 
  used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky 
  god.