In article ,
Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
}Ever wonder if in an alternate universe, all the people who bash the
}Shuttle and ISS decisions and praise "what might have been" with more
}Apollo and Skylab missions, are instead arguing about what a waste of
}money all those non-reusable launches and short-lived stations were and
}if only NASA had gone with the Shuttle instead we'd have had hundreds
}of missions and on to Mars by now?

But that's exactly the point. Unless there is a Cold War on, every
direction to take manned spaceflight is going to look wrong. It's like
watching bad TV: the promos looked interesting, but you keep
wondering why it sucks. Maybe if you keep changing the channel...
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