The Shuttle project promised launch costs in the $100s for a kilo. It failed with roughly a factor of 100. All the NASA money wasted could have been used bette

The Shuttle project promised launch costs in the $100s for a kilo. It failed with roughly a factor of 100. All the NASA money wasted could have been used better in doing something! Like space research -- or going to Mars. The shuttle project has probably delayed humanity living outside the atmosphere by decades. Hell, the shuttle's existence might literally have doomed humanity, if another dinosaur killer comes along... The only "good" thing with the shuttle, which makes people support it, is that it was a job program.