I'm hoping they're not jumping the gun given the launch troubles, but experts and astronauts are clearly feeling the shuttle program is back on track.
I have mixed emotions about it. Any space mission is better than none, but it seems like we're lagging behind with unsafe, decades-old designs and not much in the way of progressive R&D in manned spaceflight. Be nice if we could move a tiny smidge of some of that funding the Pentagon drowns in every year over to NASA. As much as I appreciate the utility of developing 15,000-pound bombs that can wipe out hardened terrorist colonies of mountain marmots, I think it'd be more worthwhile to spend tax money on space sciences, among other things. Our time is running short, after all.
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