I personally give the space shuttle a little slack on the aerodynamics department when I remember that it enters the atmosphere at nearly Mach 25, and is big en

I personally give the space shuttle a little slack on the aerodynamics department when I remember that it enters the atmosphere at nearly Mach 25, and is big enough to produce two separate sonic booms. It was probably a very wasteful design (burdened by the military requirements), but it's like nothing else we've ever built!