What if the shuttle never existed?
Atlantic Ocean floor near Florida would be littered with about 125
Saturn-IB first stages, for one thing.
And further downrange, about 125 launch escape system towers.
Spent command modules would be standard display items in every podunk
aircraft museum in the country. Probably in every Six Flags "Right
Stuff" waiting line, too.
Most telecom satellites would be shaped to fit in a CSM shroud like
Pegasus.
Hubble would have been a lot smaller. So would TDRS satellites.
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