[arnold_palmur]

I've often seen the space shuttle get tossed in when discussing complex achievements.

[gus_massa]

It used too many cutting edge technologies, to "reuse" the ship it was necessary to do a complete refurbish [1]. It was closer to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

[1] More details in the Feynman's appendix https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3570/1/Feynman.pdf

[rishikeshs]

Yeah! That’s true!