In article ,
(JohnMcGrew) wrote:

I am afraid that in 50 years or so when the definitive history of this period
is written, the Shuttle will go down like the Concorde: A technical
achievement certainly, but a total commercial/economic failure.


At the taxpayer's expense in both cases, and in the first case at least
accompanied by a great deal of corruptive dishonesty on the part of
those promoting it