What Goes Around, Comes Around

[pmcray]

Check out this URL

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html

Interesting article from 1980. Actually, the shuttle did recover at least one satellite if I remember correctly.

Comments

[lproven.livejournal.com]

And repaired the Hubble, and made the ISS possible.

But the Space Transportation System is, it must be admitted, a pale shadow of what it should have been, what it was meant to be. And I doubt they'll give the money now to build Shuttle II.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

It suffers from not really being one thing or another. It's a cold war relic at the end of the day. There's no point in having a vehicle to carry passengers which also has the payload capability of our largest unmanned vehicles. The problem was, without a space station, the shuttle has to do everything - and the USAF wanted it for spy ops.

They need a smaller vehicle for passenger runs.