Astronauts build space stations, deploy space telescopes and probes to other worlds too. They spacewalk as well and have rescued Hubble more then once. They ride the fire into orbit and come back home at Mach 24. I would trade places with them on launch day in a New York minute.
It still fuels passion in people. Very much so.
That's "space station", singular. The station also does such things as breeding worms, and other things so important that most people who follow the news can't name a single example.
"deploy space telescopes and probes to other worlds too. They spacewalk as well and have rescued Hubble more then once."
There could have been several new "Hubbles" for the cost of the shuttle, only abandoning the first failure. In any case, rockets do the job - and without killing as many government workers whose annoying families we now have to compensate.
"They ride the fire into orbit and come back home at Mach 24."
Very, very true.... Pointless, but true!
"I would trade places with them on launch day in a New York minute."
I, too, would screw taxpayers in order to joyride if I could -- I just need to invent some excuses, the way that NASA does.