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>>12202154
I think all you'd need is a confirmation that the Shuttle naysayers were correct on cost. Then instead of pissing away 40 years on an inherently expensive design, NASA could start cost optimizing the Saturn and Titan lines, with the Apollo capsules reserved for more moon missions or a manned station in GEO over the Indian ocean to spy on Russia. We'd have semi reusable rockets in the 70s and the Saturn V could trivially launch a more modest shuttle for construction, retrieval and repair ops.

also, HOP WHEN