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and yet it would be nice to still have the shuttle program... so far nothing is capable of EVA like the shuttle was so any repairs in space are still not possib
by emkoemko 5y ago
and yet it would be nice to still have the shuttle program... so far nothing is capable of EVA like the shuttle was so any repairs in space are still not possible, like they did in the past with the shuttle.
- nwallin 5y agoThe Space Shuttle costed $1.6 billion per launch. There's not a whole lot of things that would be cheaper to repair than to build a new one and launch it on a Falcon 9. I agree that the Space Shuttle had a cool factor that nothing else does.
- nickik 5y agoRepairs in space with humans never actually make sense. For the price of those missions you could have simply built a better sat in the first place.