[Yossarian]

Yup. Lag time between Apollo and Shuttle wasn’t this bad. And the Shuttle was retired with a lot of life left on the vehicles.

Yeah, but the "parallel stack" configuration made the system a deathtrap, proven twice. And the turn-around on the Shuttle - in the best of cases - was far more complex than (management) anticipated (wanted to hear).

I hate to say this, but "good riddance" to the STS.

[rktman]

😂🙌 Well it paid my bills for a while.