Perhaps the memory banks are somewhat degraded over time. In any case, the space shuttle was originally supposed to be a much cheaper way to get into space. That was a bust, since it costed almost a billion dollars per launch. And on top of that, NASA was building a huge space station that I’ve never heard one good thing come out of, other than we now know how bees cope with zero gravity. That’s some valuable information, there. I’ve seen the ISS fly directly overhead, though. Pretty impressive.
And we had Skylab, which got off to a bumpy start involving overheating. One of the solar panel didn’t deploy, if I remember right…