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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Regarding the purpose of the shuttle in the first place, you can lay that one at Nixon's feet. He was presented with a proposal for an Earth-orbiting space station with an attendant service vehicle. He vetoed the station, but kept the service vehicle -- nifty way to put spy satellites in orbit. But, he didn't realize, an incredibly risky and expensive one. I find the entire shuttle program to have been a very poor use of funds and expertise. Far better, for all past and present concerns (I think) to have a good, cheap, and reliable unmanned launch vehicle like the Ariane to get payloads into orbit, and then a smaller lifting body shuttle to get work crews into orbit when needed. More like an expansion of Gemini than the shuttle as built. This is why I had such high hopes for the Venture (I refuse to call it Venture*Star). --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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