By: Bill in Houston
I hate to say this, but no. The space shuttle PROGRAM was not a good investment. It NEVER performed anywhere near as well as advertised and promoted. The cost of putting a pound in orbit actually went...
View ArticleBy: craig
I don’t see the answer to this question as answerable in purly financial terms. Now if you put this to a free enterprizer so favored by Republicans the answer might well come back no way no how. After...
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In comparison to no manned space launch capability, it was definitely a worthy investment. In comparison to the promises made when it was being built and for the first flights, not so much. In...
View ArticleBy: Ralph W
No. True a lot of technology came from the program. That could have been done much cheaper if the shuttle never existed. The Hubble is the only thing that might not have been possible w/o the shuttle....
View ArticleBy: Rich F
Was the Space Shuttle program a good investment? I’m not sure that a popular poll would be the way to answer that question. Speaking for myself, I couldn’t give an intelligent answer because I simply...
View ArticleBy: John
Was the Shuttle a good investment? I think you would have to ask the Nixon administration that question. The catastrophic failure rate was much higher for the Shuttle. So in terms of human life the...
View ArticleBy: Karen Russell
The shuttle program gave tens of thousands of people jobs for thirty years. Those people bought homes, cars, clothes, vacations, donated to charities, educated their children, saved for retirement,...
View ArticleBy: AV
Depends – cost of Iraq war = $2 trillion and counting…Results = 50,000+ US casualties (including wounded), 500,000+ Iraqi civilian casualties. Space Shuttle Program – cost – $200 Billion…Results =...
View ArticleBy: Alexis Bolen
I appreciate Vanessa finally adding to the discussion beyond the point of space exploration. If anyone has visited the Kennedy Space Center here in Brevard County, you will know that one of the most...
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