Definitely, no. Shuttle was designed, to make use of capacity of Morton Thiokol Inc. enterprise, which without SRB's was near 100% military enterprise (created

Definitely, no. Shuttle was designed, to make use of capacity of Morton Thiokol Inc. enterprise, which without SRB's was near 100% military enterprise (created to build SRB's for ICBM's). That time Moon program was on liquid fueled rocket, but with nazi smell, so made political decision, to make 100% domestic design, without any traces to German works.