Agreed, as the shuttle work has also led to new technologies. The Apollo program also lost Astronauts but gave us great technologies and movies.
On Sunday, May 27, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: > We are lambasting NASA about this, and yeah they deserve it. But don't > forget they also launched the Mars explorers. That is one one the greatest > achievements in the history of science and technology. > > NASA is a big organization. Some parts are good, and some are bad. As I > said, when they are good, they are very, very good. > > - Jed > >

