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Private Space Shuttle Flights
An anonymous reader writes "It has recently been suggested that when the Space Shuttles are retired after their final flights this year, they may continue operations under the funding of private enterprise. United Space Alliance is considering a $1.5 billion per year proposal to take the fleet private. The aging spacecraft have been flying for close to 30 years, and NASA is retiring them for good reason. Is it safe to continue flights in private hands?"
In honor of those lives lost in 86, the billions of dollars spent to try and keep America at the front of a futile space race, and millions starving instead of being fed to do so, the fleet should have been grounded a LONG time ago. I hope America focuses on what is really important, and that is to serve its people, the folks that make things work and tick well in this country. NASA is a pig, a money pit, we all know it. Yes, some tech comes from it, but so great tech comes from other things as well... So, why is it that NASA has such deep pockets and its a private enterprise already? Going 'private' is not going to happen, it is already private with FAT government spending and waste. The bricks are not safe, thus being retired.