Space Shuttle's "Return to Flight"

[TigerLily]

as for my response it had to do with what I quoted. the developement of medicines. I realize other stuff has been done...and tang is gross by the way....but all the above could have been done without a space shuttle program. 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.