Semper Fi.
And a pity that two of her sister ships (and their crew) met such an unfortunate end.
I watched a replay of the post flight press conference with the crew tonight, there was a question about the remaining shuttle operation being taken over by a private consortium of companies.
The question was put to the Mission Commander.. was the remaining shuttle fleet “robust enough” to last another 10 years.
In a nutshell he said, if maintained in their present form .. YES !!!!