Space Shuttle's "Return to Flight"

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Originally Posted by TigerLily

We can launch sattelites into space without a shuttle. Most of the experiments they carry out are just silly....great it works in space, we live with gravity. However, i do think they should continue with the space station and create a new type of shuttle. As you have mentioned in the last 28 years we ave made advances in car designs and aircraft, but we still use the same aging shuttle....we need to move forward.

We can launch unmanned rockets, but can we repair them? The Hubble had to be repaired awhile ago...without the shuttle, we would have had to bring it out of orbit and launch up a new one.

And, the shuttle is a completly different beast than it was 28 years ago. Numerous upgrades have been made to its systems and components, so it's pretty unfair to call it 28 years old.