If columbia hadnt been lost would the shuttle still be flying?

On Mar 14, 12:33*pm, JF Mezei wrote:
I know this is all in hindsight...

NASA had wanted to go with electric hydraulics for some time.

Boeing now has electric hydraulics on its commercial 787 plane.

I realise that moving to electric also probably means beefing up the
electric power supply for the shuttle. However, from the hydraulic
systems point of view, could the 787 hydraulic pumps be used on the
shuttle ?

If NASA still has to design them from scratch due to harsher
environment, would the Boeing experience with electric hydraulic make a
significant difference in lowering the costs of this conversion ?

Probably, although scaled up.....

Its sad if the shuttle had LFBB and other upgrades probably model 2 it
could till be flying today and a version used for heavy lift...

part of the problem was not designing the shuttle or a version for
unmanned or minimally manned...