Fight to Save Shuttle

ed kyle wrote:

The danger is that shuttle is abandoned, but CEV
development is subsequently stalled (for any of a variety
of possible reasons), bringing an end to U.S. human
spaceflight for the forseeable future.

Exactly what is the "danger", Ed? There was was a ~5 year gap in US
manned space capability back in the 1970s. The nation didn't miss
it.

Sad to say but manned space is not a "must have" capability.

Jim Davis