I have written about this a lot in the past and I will post a full article to justify my position. But largely, the Shuttle was a failure. Look at the requirements and investment and look what actually happened, it was not even close. The cost-effective, safe space taxi ended up being so expensive it locked NASA into…

The answer to that question changes the more times you ask it. The next Russian jets to go sight seeing won’t get three warnings.

You can already see their Putin Trolls trying to claim it wasnt.

Some believe that the fundamental reason for Russia’s involvement in the region is oil and natural gas. Basically, Russia is concerned that Europe will no longer be reliant on them and Turkey is defintely a player in all that.

The US has won nearly ALL of them in the past 50 years. The Gulf war... no contest. Afghanistan... Military destroyed and government replaced. Iraq in 2003, steamrolled and government replaced.

Estes rocket

Behold, the Chinese Chode Map (CCM for short). This map boils my blood every time I see it. It looks like something a toddler would draw up while playing Risk with adults.

Not yet, actually, but I do play a whole lotta Kerbal Space Program.

The volume of the ISS could have been put up in 3 Saturn V launches. It has 3x the internal volume of skylab, which was put up by a single Saturn V launch. There would’ve been some more more launches for extras like solar panels, but being able to launch 80 tons of space station to LEO per launch would have been much…

Ask the Iranians what happens when you attack a US Navy ship. You get swift responses like Operations Nimble Archer in ‘87 and Praying Mantis in ‘88. That put an end to their direct action BS real quick.

Thats kinda not true. The ISS actually would have been built MUCH faster without the shuttle.

I still don’t get why Russia is messing with Turkey. Nothing they field has stealth. Keep trying NATO’s patience and the policy will become one warning and you lose it for anything crossing the border without permission. In return Russia gets, what exactly? A casus belli? That is both insane and it makes no sense.…

I grew up on the East Coast about 70 miles from the Cape. I watched almost every launch, including the one on a beautiful morning in 2nd grade where the teachers all had us convinced that wasn’t the shuttle — it was just a weather rocket that had exploded.

I’m going to assume you read the Martian recently

It was a Turkey Shoot!!

nah, they’ll claim that the missiles originated from Ukraine, and double down on their arming of the rebels for “humanitarian” concerns

A conflict between Turkey and the Ruskies was inevitable at this moment, they repeatedly said any more flying across the border and the intruder will be shot down. Now let’s see if the russians admit it’s their machine, we all know how they addmited the involvement in Ukraine. Anyway, what drones does the russians…

Somebody has been watching too much RT. The US does not have to go out and find allies, people turn to the US when the big local bully starts acting up again. Furthermore you will find that almost every country in Europe is a US ally.