Boeing: Space shuttles to last into next decade

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

In article , AES/newspost
writes:

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

Such things are usually at the taxpayers expense. If they were worth doing
economically, someone else would have done it on their own.

John