[Ichneumon]

Sounds silly, but maybe they'll make new shuttles like the ones in the movie 'Armageddon'.

Those were (loosely) based on designs for the "second generation", bigger-and-better shuttles which were proposed at one point. But the "old" shuttles were doing fine and had a long projected lifetime (even Columbia, now cut short, put in over 20 years of service), so designing and building brand new shuttle models seemed an unnecessarily extravagent waste of money. That may be the case even now -- it would probably be a lot cheaper to just build new shuttles to the original plans than to redesign them from scratch.

[Yaelle]

This question makes me sick to post, but when Palestinians and Iraqis are shown cheering for our tragedy, what will the reaction of our Peaceniks be? Will they finally resolve that we need to fight and make better that corner of the world, or will they (shudder) see the "point" of the Arabs' horrible jubilation???