IIRC the Space Shuttles used in Aermageddon were not "the" space shuttles, but some hypothetical semi-secret project shuttles that the movie made up. But yeah,

IIRC the Space Shuttles used in Aermageddon were not "the" space shuttles, but some hypothetical semi-secret project shuttles that the movie made up. But yeah, the space shuttles were LEO only. IIRC the highest they ever went was up to Hubble, and I think that was pretty close to the most they could manage. Though now that I think about it, I am pretty sure they generally jettisoned the external fuel tanks with a little fuel left over, maybe they could delay the jettison to get into slightly higher orbits than usual.