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I am just amazed that NASA turned around a shuttle in 54 days, I don't even recall it. Apparently these were the first two missions flown[0]. However I also rea

I am just amazed that NASA turned around a shuttle in 54 days, I don't even recall it. Apparently these were the first two missions flown[0]. However I also read almost suffered Columbia's fate on one of its flight due to a large loss of tiles [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis#Flights_listing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis#Flights...

redis_mlc 6y ago
> I am just amazed that NASA turned around a shuttle in 54 days It's disgraceful, actually. The Shuttle was sold as being "reusable", but it turned out to require remanufacturing after each launch. A lot of them took a year to prepare, with majors requiring 2 years. From the very first launch, there were missing tiles. The result was the cost per launch being 10x that of regular rockets.