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The price tag and max payload? Perhaps they thought unrealistic to spend that much and to be able to carry that much just to take pictures...
by entity345 8y ago
The price tag and max payload? Perhaps they thought unrealistic to spend that much and to be able to carry that much just to take pictures...
- JohnBooty 8y agoThat's one of my favorite things about this whole debacle. The Space Shuttle program was so incomprehensibly inefficient that the USSR thought that surely the USA was hiding something. In reality, it was just... a really inefficient program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle...
- rbanffy 8y agoI think the Soviets figuring out it was a weapon before it being deployed was key in preventing it from being deployed as a weapon. It then became a civilian program with military requirements and military operating costs - very inefficient.