[everyone]

Reminded me of this.. https://youtu.be/_q2i0eu35aY

" The Space Shuttle was a vehicle designed to do many things, and in a deal with the US Military it was redesigned to make it able to perform a very specific secret mission. The redesign radically changed the Shuttle from the early concepts to the actual design which we saw fly, but, before the shuttle even flew the secret mission had been abandoned.

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[valuearb]

It wasn’t a “deal” with the US military, NASA crammed it down their throat. The redesign only became necessary when NASA got congress to cancel the Air Force launch program to force their payloads on the Shuttle.

[thaeli]

That, and the (dramatized, but fundamentally true) "Evolution of the Bradley" sequence from Pentagon Wars.