>>1475930>Any pretense of recouping the more than $5 billion cost of Shuttle development was abandonedLook at that. NASA actually thought they might make back the development costs of the STS through cost savings. Should've done modular 70s Space Station + manned ELVs. Descendents of those ELVs might still be in use today, just as Soyuz, Long March, H-II, and Ariane are all living rocket families.
