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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] God if only somebody had already [URL=http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-38/HTML/EC96-43737-13.html]designed[/URL] and [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/273395.stm]tested[/URL] a [URL=http://www.astronautix.com/craft/x38.htm]dedicated[/URL] [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2453603.stm]lifeboat[/URL]. Can you imagine them cancelling a project like that after having already spent billions of dollars without deploying a single prototype to the ISS? Do you see what will happen if NASA abandons the shuttle fleet at this point? That money will go somewhere else. Congress will not sit on their hands and the Space Program's budget would surely feel their bad-touch. This is not your Civilization: III game. Grounding the shuttles would not hurry production of the replacement hypersonic SSTO mega-ram-jet. (note: It might spur the design process but development would still be decades away). ISS and shuttle clearly aren't perfect, but they are still impressive solutions for reusable launch vehicles and frontier bases. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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