You spend months and months whining about "irreplaceable" the astronauts are
(even though you seem to know none, and have no idea what risks they are
willing to assume, or to not assume), and how they should launch the

Hey, Save the crew first! But avoid destroying a orbiter unnecessarily.

They should be upgraded to full unmanned landings.

Then if theres a bad failure you fix it as best possible and send it home
unmanned.

I accept that
your opinions are crap. I just wish you'd decide which version of crap they
are.

DF



Same back to you. If a orbiter was intentionally ditched you would be here no
doubt talking of how to continue the program with just 2 vehicles.

after all its a jobs program.
Hey this is my opinion