Why The Space Shuttle Was Doomed From The Start | Space Shuttle: The Human Time Bomb | Spark

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[–]roc 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Space Shuttle was an underfunded compromise that tried too many things at once: reusability, large payload, crossrange and seven passengers.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

A tasty recipe for disaster, served up hot, twice.

[–]roc 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

How could they have known? They performed four test flights and then declared it to be safe and removed the ejection seats. Four whole test flights! /s