Are you aware of USA dependence on EO Assets???

Shuttle Capability critical to National Security

America, the big loser re: shuttle termination

Re: Pinchefsky 5 horrifying "facts" you didn't know about the space shuttle--Forbes 
Seven losses America can not afford:

1. Shuttle is critical to national security 
2. Shuttle is critical to ISS survival---& Hubble. Significantly reduces cancer & other zero g medical research. 
3. Shuttle is expensive, look at what capability you get! Costs could be reduced as in commercial shuttle. Re: nasaproblems.com 
4. No new development of this magnitude is without losses of life, could have been automated sooner, with crew escape pods, still should be done. This automation could minimize human risks. Improved management could have avoided the two failures, red flags were up. 

5. Maintenance of the type of effort critical to America technological preeminence. 
6. Shuttle provided a dream for many of the young Americans. 
7. INABILITY to use the STS to place modules in orbit to explore the universe! 

So , Ms. Pinchefsky, if you want to talk about things that are expensive, & buy you very little or ZERO, look at foreign aid, UN, & Colburn's list. 

I am surprised Forbes would print an article so void of factual information & biased against the space program. 

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