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by wongarsu
727 days ago
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What NASA wanted was a space station, a small tug to move stuff in space, and a small shuttle to move people and cargo from earth to that station. The whole point of the space shuttle was to have it service the space station, but the station wasn't greenlit. Instead we got a much bigger shuttle that was useful as a military asset but was a money pit with terrible safety record. Luckily the Soviet Union collapsed and the ISS was funded as a job program for Soviet rocket scientists (out of fear they could be poached to work on ICBMs for other nations). |
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It's the first time that I heard this theory. Do you have any sources to read up on it?