[BrewingFrog]

It must be remembered that Shuttle payload and optimum flight profile were not built around where the ISS is orbiting. Bad Bill clinton had his own Russian Outreach Program that put the ISS in a waaay northern orbit that cut Shuttle payload by something like 1/3 to 1/2. Typical dumbass Bill clinton diplomacy.

For the single thing that actually was a went-as-designed mission and piece of hardware, there’s Hubble.

I wish now that NASA just got their bureaucratic butts out of the way and let SpaceX and the rest of them at the skies.

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[Moonman62]

It must be remembered that Shuttle payload and optimum flight profile were not built around where the ISS is orbiting. Bad Bill clinton had his own Russian Outreach Program that put the ISS in a waaay northern orbit that cut Shuttle payload by something like 1/3 to 1/2. Typical dumbass Bill clinton diplomacy.

The Russian orbit ticks me off on what should have been space station Freedom. But are you sure about the payload? I'm pretty sure NASA designed a lighter external tank and upgraded the main engines.

For the single thing that actually was a went-as-designed mission and piece of hardware, there’s Hubble.

What about the mirror problem? It stinks that the Hubble will probably end up being burnt in the atmosphere rather than retrieved and put in a museum.