[RightWhale]

Suggestion: follow Iraq's example. Dig a couple big holes and bury the Space Shuttles. Start over. Start with a goal of reaching an end this time, not a means. Most immoral of NASA and NASA's Beltway controllers to develop a means without a purpose. Institutional immorality. It would have been better overall to have done nothing with manned spaceflight the last 30 years.

[XBob]

15 - "Most immoral of NASA and NASA's Beltway controllers to develop a means without a purpose. "

That is why space travel will never develop commercially, until we find our modern 'silk farms', 'spice islands', or 'gold rush'. We have no 'destination' or 'purpose'.