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Old March 12th 08, 12:52 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.station,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.history
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Default Military vs Civilian Orbital Laboratories, Vehicles, and Crews

On Mar 12, 8:28 am, wrote:
The Shuttle got funded,
but not without getting a huge makeover by the Airforce that
dramatically increased development cost with wings engines and tiles
it didn't really need and the Army, that mandated SRBs which were
dangerous and low performing, in lieu of a fully reusable first stage,
increased operating costs.


Among with the other crazy non existent crap in your rant,

The Army had nothing to do with the Shuttle