[mysterio]

lem. The government chose the shuttles as an expensive smoke-screen. The shuttles are archaic technology flying more or less on a fairly improbable to impossible wing and a prayer as quite a number of NASA and contracting engineers have asserted. The disasters did not need to be orchestrated even by the oligarchy for them to be responsible because they chose to use such a complex bag of bolts as a smoke-screen. . . . unnecessarily putting precious patriots’ lives at stake. Please let me know if this is not simiplified or elaborated enough. I’m willing to TRY again.

So you're arguing the government put the shuttle program up as a diversion to hide the real alien space ships that they could be making?

Wow, that brings even more people into the conspiracy, making it even less likely.

[Quix]

WRONG.

“could be making.”

HAVE BEEN MAKING FOR DECADES.

Enjoy the ignorance.

It’s half life is decreasing markedly daily.

[GingisK]

So you're arguing the government put the shuttle program up as a diversion to hide the real alien space ships that they could be making?

I would guess that the NASA program is operated by those who do not know of the other vehicles, since those are tightly controlled secrets. The "dark project" people are not apt to follow NASA's request for money by telling Congress, "No, those old rocket clunkers aren't really needed", since they'd have to explain why the aren't needed.

NASA is a public entity. They don't get to know what is under wraps any more than the rest of us.