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Braulio
The design of the Space Shuttle was not fudeamental Flawed, the do had a few design flaws, like the use of tills, to make the re-entry cooler, and of course the use of serten metall allous did their share to make the space shuttle less able than it was.. But in all, the space program, like in the space shuttle program was not flawed as such, but to point out the engine problemas as you point out, it was from the get go known to most peopole, who worked at the program, that the liquid fuel and oxygen engine could not lift the space shuttle near the hight the wanted for it.. The solid fuel boosters was not added to the space shuttle as an afterthough, but rather as the design was made more an more sure, the know how, was made posible that they needed the solid boosters.. And the Solid Fuel Boosters did the trick if I might have to say so...
But as a point. The liquid hydrogen-ozcygen engines, who the space shuttle was using, are even today one of the best way to propel a orbital thing into orbit.. Most rockets today, use either solid rocked fuel - or the same type of fuel that the current Space Shuttle are using, So, if the engines are so flawes, why the hell are most rockets using the same design... Even China are using luqid or solid fuel to propel their rockets..
One thing is sure, the Space Shuttle as we know it, have not been a sheap shuttle, compared to, like a Apollo NG, the Space Shuttle is like driving a Roll Royce, and then a Cobolt... That be the Apollo NG is an Cobolt, and the Rolls Royce the Space Shuttle.. But to say that the Space Shuttle have never been another thing than a expensive toy for the astronauts is utter bulshit, who most educated persons, who have followed the shuttle program - or who had at least managed to read some about the program would reqonize as a fact.. A lot of our tecnology, like our comuputers, who I belive you are using on a daily basis, have it base in programs like the Apollo program, and the Space Shuttle program.. They had to miniatyrize every component who was to be build into the program, even tho the zise of the technology in the 1970s, was bigger than in our current computers.. My watch have more power to tell me what the time is, than the Apollo computer did in the 1960s... But still it looks like you admire the Apollo program, but could not say a good word about the Space Shuttle program, who have been used to give us a far better undestanding about the cosmos, most of the most advanced star gazers have been shoot up, by the "flawed design": And in the case of the Hubble the Space Shuttle have been instrumental in made it posible for Hubble to function at all.. Withouth the wisit of the Space Shuttle, at least 4 times as I reqon it at hte moment, Hubble would not have leasted at long as i have been, and not given us the amazing pictures about the wonders, who are waiting for us out there....
The International Space Station are a new one, and have maybe yet to prove itself as "worth the while". But it is not a waste of money and time, as ISS, wil give humans a greater understanding how to live and surive out there in space.. And when the humans is ready, to leave earth it would be from places like ISS, or places like it.. And it have also given the world a posibility to work togheter, specially after the cold war, when the new word was to be discovered, ISS have been instrumental in making the russians, the americans, and the rest of the world able to build, and maintain human pressence in space... Even tho ISS have been far slower build than expected, mostly becouse of overun economy vice, I would not say the ISS, have been a waste of money.. And just to point out it, many other nations, than Russia and US have spendt money on ISS, and would gladly give more to the program.. ISS is up there, and would be the little grip mankind have in the space at current.. If we just get better along, and stop most of the total un-nessesary wars down here, the exploration, by humans, both in near spacve and beyound would be more easy, and go forward faster than today... Its over 40 year since Neil Armstrong first came to the Moon.. And no man have been on the Moon since Apollo 17...
IF, and I would say when, a Space Shuttle NG is build, all the flaws, all the wrong design would be fixed and a new, more advanced, and maybe also better Space Shuttle would emerge from the design labs. the least 30 or so year, have given designers and enegiers a far better understanding about the stress a space shuttle liftoff really is. And they also have a whole new generation of metals, and composite to play with, to get it right.. The space Shuttle is an old design, using the best metals they could muster in the 1970s.. With the new, light, but strong metals and composite able to us today, a new design, not just the body, but also to the engine would be more than able.. Just the last couple of year, new engines - one, who in design was russian made, and had been stored in an hangar for more than 30 year) have given the un-manned space program a new life, becouse the engines is far better suited to get rockets out in space
The future is Space, and the future is MANNED SPACE exploration.. Not by maning some drones to let us se what is in our nearest areas of the space, but to discover what is out there for real, we need manned space exploration.. The space Shuttle, - and now the ISS, is just our firstt, tiny little baby steps into the oceans that is space.. Hopefully in a 100 years time, our relatives would talke about us, in some kindness, becouse we was so primitive in our exploration of space.. Maybe your grand,grand children would have residence in a moon colony, or better, at Mars, where thy would disoover things, that we could just be dreaming off...
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