Oh, come on! It's obvious NASA could easily fix this by hiring better script writers and special effects crews.
Well, for that they'd have needed more money.
So you see, this can all be traced back to an egregious budgeting failure by President Bush (and somehow, incredibly but not atypically, one Mr. Karl Rove). : )
WHY WASN'T THERE A TRANSPORTER ROOM ON THAT SHUTTLE?