I'm sorry but the Shuttle and the ISS have simply gobbled up funding with very little real purpose. When you lose sight of a real goal, government funding turns into a jobs program.
There were a lot of better alternaives for funding space development. I was involved in lobby groups for years talking to Congress and the Administration about the issues, it did very little good. Ransom Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Chemical Engineer <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: > If that was the only accomplishment of the shuttle i might give your argument > some weight > > On Saturday, May 26, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Randy Wuller <rwul...@freeark.com> wrote: > > You could have replaced the Hubble many time over for the cost of the Shuttle > and its operation. > > That is true. See the book "Hubble Wars." The cost of the Shuttle mission to > repair the Hubble was greater than the cost of launching a new Hubble would > have been. I regret to say this, but it was a publicity stunt. > > - Jed >
