Sadly, you are right. I still miss the shuttle for the aesthetic.
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Everybody always brings up the Hubble repairs. How many brand-new Hubbles could they have launched instead?
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James Webb is still a ground-bound pork-pie
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The shuttle is the worst of all worlds: wings and flight of a SSTO: staging of a rocket, complex arrangement of a multistage deep space probe
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anywhere the shuttle could take humans, a Dragon can, and any satellite the shuttle could launch can go on a Falcon Heavy beautiful it was, but not all that for capability
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There is no way to spin the compete loss of a generation of space exploration I should have been working in space based on my background and training but there simply wasn’t anything there for me. Perhaps we have come out of our long fugue state visa via space exploration
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The shuttle was much more capable of burning dollars, for sure.
$450 million per launch vs $50 M for Falcon 9.
The shuttle was a jobs program.
Good riddance.