U.S. has resumed space capsule launches. There's no good historical parallel - we've never seen a country shift from a spacecraft as capable as Shuttle to something much less capable (and need ~15 yrs to do it). One might say we've caught up w/ Russia (again) & China. 1/
>Check out what Shuttle could do Have 40% of the vehicles not return safely from all missions? >Check out what it could have done with minimal additional investment Get that rate up to 100%?