Good interview with the former administrator of NASA. If we don't boldly go where no man has gone before they will beat us to it http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-p...program-held-hostage-by-russia-113112092.html
Russia can't afford to do much. We have several corporations competing for NASA rocket contracts and we will be fine. Russia needs our money more than we need Russian rockets.
The things were dangerous and killing people. 40% of them suffered a catastrophic failure killing all on board. It had to be ended sooner than expected.
How do you come up with 40%? There were two fatal missions. That's bad enough but nowhere near 40%. There were 135 shuttle launches. That's a flight failure rate of 1.5% which is still unacceptable. If 1.5% of Delta or United flights crashed they would have been grounded forever and their top executives would be in prison
Huge mistake in my opinion. I think all campaign funding should go directly into space exploration. Somewhere some master race of beings is laughing at us and calling us stupid. We are a reality show of pregnant teenagers or drunk hillbillies to them.
