A lost decade-plus for manned spaceflight and rocket development. A bunch of very funny things in there, such as this about the ISS: "Launched in an oblique,

A lost decade-plus for manned spaceflight and rocket development. A bunch of very funny things in there, such as this about the ISS: "Launched in an oblique, low orbit that guarantees its permanent uselessness, it serves as yin to the shuttle's yang, justifying an endless stream of future Shuttle missions through the simple stratagem of being too expensive to abandon." The article suggests Nasa cynically kept the shuttle and ISS going, in order for each to justify the existence of the other.