Tomorrow's Time Magazine has some sound financial agruments against continuing the shuttle program. http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030210/sceaste rbrook.html
"For 20 years, the American space program has been wedded to a space-shuttle system that is too expensive, too risky, too big for most of the ways it is used, with budgets that suck up funds that could be invested in a modern system that would make space flight cheaper and safer."
"Originally projected to cost $5 million per flight in today's dollars, each shuttle launch instead runs to around $500 million."
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Tomorrow's Time Magazine has some sound financial agruments against continuing the shuttle program. http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030210/sceaste rbrook.html
"For 20 years, the American space program has been wedded to a space-shuttle system that is too expensive, too risky, too big for most of the ways it is used, with budgets that suck up funds that could be invested in a modern system that would make space flight cheaper and safer."
"Originally projected to cost $5 million per flight in today's dollars, each shuttle launch instead runs to around $500 million."