APOD: A Space Shuttle on the Streets of LA (2012 Oct 22)

[cljohnston108]

I do hope that this is the last APOD post on the SST.
How did we, as a nation, delude ourselves into accepting, continuing, and now glorifying a transportation system that operated with a 1.5% hull-loss rate? Why haven't we call it out for what it was: an abject failure of design and vision that twice took 7 lives and stagnated spaceflight research/development for 3 decades.

Fortunately, not everyone shares your Glass-Half-Empty attitude.