Re: APOD: A Space Shuttle on the Streets of... (2012 Oct 22)
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:37 pm
Fortunately, not everyone shares your Glass-Half-Empty attitude.scr33d wrote:I do hope that this is the last APOD post on the SST.
How did we, as a nation, delude ourselves into accepting, continuing, and now glorifying a transportation system that operated with a 1.5% hull-loss rate? Why haven't we call it out for what it was: an abject failure of design and vision that twice took 7 lives and stagnated spaceflight research/development for 3 decades.