"Space Shuttle – Das Ende einer Ära" ("Space Shuttle – The End of an Era") is a German science documentary marking the conclusion of NASA's thirty-year Space Shuttle programme. The film revisits the engineering, ambitions, and setbacks of the reusable orbiter — from its earliest flights to the Challenger and Columbia disasters — and follows the final missions that brought the programme to a close. Through interviews with astronauts, engineers, and space historians, the documentary asks what the Shuttle actually achieved, what it cost, and what kind of human spaceflight might come next. Part of the Kantara Films & Documentaries archive, the film fits the production company's long-running interest in science, technology, and the history of exploration, and is aimed at viewers curious about the legacy of one of the most ambitious engineering programmes of the twentieth century.