Space system “Shuttle,” part of USA’s nuclear attack arsenal?

The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen Because specialization is for insects. November 18, 2013 by J. M. Korhonen

The story of a white elephant colloquially known as the Space Shuttle is familiar to most students of the history of technology. The shuttle was originally touted as a cheap way to access space: being mostly reusable, it would have done for space travel the same what DC-3 did for air travel, i.e. open up the space for large-scale exploration and exploitation.

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