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>>12172460
At least shuttle actually got off the ground, unlike ALS, NLS, SEI, SLI, NASP, Constellation, and pretty much every other attempt at innovation in American aerospace between 1980-2010. People could be forgiven for thinking maybe all attempts at making meaningful progress in spaceflight were doomed to failure.

Like /sfg/ loves Eyes Turned Skyward and Mike Griffin's article that inspired it ( https://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/human_space_exp.html ) but the implication behind both is that we should have just given up on making any ambitious plans in space after 1970. And it wasn't an unreasonable position, at least not until that first booster touched down upright to awaken everyone from their jaded slumbers.