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You may credulate it or not by whatever criteria you like.

The fact remains that STS was massively expensive, and unnecessarily, and it ate up budget that could have been used for much better things, and probably would have.

Skylab really did fall out of the sky. The US really was for years dependent upon Russia to launch its astronauts. We really did get only just the one Hubble.

And we are doing it again, with SLS.