5: Over 30 years, Shuttle would fly 135 times - It never flew more than 9 times a year - It cost many times what expendable rockets cost - The total program cost was $240 billion, or $1.7 billion/flight (2021 $) - And it killed 14 astronauts in two separate accidents - - -
6: What went wrong?
7: Shuttle was never about what you thought it was about...
8: NASA in 1969
9: But...
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11: Industry
12: What is a good program?
13: Non-goals
14: This explains a few things
15: Why didn't we get the cheap rapidly reusable launcher we hoped for?
16: Why did NASA expose astronauts to flight risks for cargo flights?
17: Why did NASA persist in flying such an expensive and limited vehicle for so long?
18: Why was the failure to meet flight rate or cost goals ignored?
19: NASA does not achieve meaningful goals in human spaceflight because NASA does not care about meaningful goals
20: 757
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22: CCDev
23: What would a good shuttle program look like?
24: X-20 Dyna-Soar - 1957-1963
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26: Thanks
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28: In September 1979, Skylab - America's first Space Station - reentered the atmosphere - - Shuttle would first launch in 1981
29: When you are confused about why people make specific decisions, it's generally because you don't understand what their goals are.
30: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. - - President Dwight Eisenhower, 1961
