[LibKill]

I would like to see a better space vehicle built. With all the silly stuff that my tax dollars are wasted on, I would consider this to be a better use of said tax dollars.

It can be done. UNLEASH THE ENGINEERS!

[elbucko]

I would like to see a better space vehicle built.

So would I. The general design may be appropriate to present and future missions but the specific design and its hardware is getting old and obsolete. Our space program(s) are one expenditure of taxpayers funds that I wholeheartedly approve and I have no connection with the space program at all.

[Falcon4.0]

I agree.

However the Poverty Pimps want ALL of the money, for thier Poverty Pimping, and unless everyone can go into space nobody should go into space.

[harpo11]

"UNLEASH THE ENGINEERS!"

Absolutely!

[MississippiMan]

I would like to see a better space vehicle built.

Agreed. For starters, I wonder if there's not a more durable thermal protection system that can be put in place now instead of 28,000 glued-on tiles.

MM

[snooker]

The real problem is the round de round stuff that NASA is now confined to doing. This is why the 30 year old design is still flying around.

We need to get over of the political correctness crap, ie International Space Station, and lookeee here a (fill in the blanks for favorite country) person is now in space .... whooppee de da.

Why not put a base on the moon and contemplate the nearest planet? Where is the adventure. We have lost it. That is why we go round de round.

I was there when the first shuttles were built. The excitemnt was high. But the gloss is gone now.

We don't need a new shuttle, we need a new aim point. New challenges.

snooker