[bvw]

You should know whose it is, right?

[discostu]

I do, I also know it has no bearing one what I said.

Anybody that can’t see how the shuttle helped space exploration is being willfully ignorant. Could we have had better tools? Yes. Could we have done more if our space program hadn’t been shunted almost entirely through the shuttle? Yes. Does that mean the shuttle was useless? Absolutely not.