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The shuttle was designed 40 years ago. NASA has no idea what they are going to replace it with. Please tell us how you spin that one for success.

That's only one of many many issues NASA hasn't even a third grade level response for.

We landed on the moon in 1969. We haven't been back since the early 1970s. Our first Mars mission will probably be after 2050 or thereabouts. Even then we'll
probably visit, cut and run.

Outside of high-school level experaments, I'm at a loss to figure out what the shuttle has been good for. We fixed the Hubble and one or two other satellites. While
I like that, was it worth the expense? If it would have been used as a stepping stone vehicle, to move at least some of the human race off planet, I'd support it.
Instead it seems like a enormous failure. BTW, I don't count two to five people on a space station in danger of never being completed to be a shining success. No
this is not the example of moving people off the planet I had in mind.

We have a space station designed with pre 1950s ideas. Even Disney and Stanley Kubrik knew about artificial gravity. We know of the problems with bone loss,
yet didn't incorporate artificial gravety into the design. We could have achieved weightless structures along-side a facility with gravity. We didn't bother.

I could go on. The list is longer than my arm.

We developed the space program, entered space and landed on the moon in a little over ten years. In thirty-four years since, what have we done? Thirty-four
years!!!

In thirty-four years since, what have we done? Thirty-four years!!!

Well, NASA have managed to have two pretty spectacular boo-boos in the last thirty years... And to think that all those 14 people were involved in some pretty significant research when they died. I, for one, truly believe that we MUST know how microgravity affects plant growth...