SkinnyGuy writes "NASA's Space Shuttle could have flown again as early as 2014 if a secret effort to repurpose them for economic flight had succeeded. From the article: 'Though secret, the plan quickly gained support and Dittmar described how funding and interest grew dramatically. "Initially skeptical," she wrote, "people became caught up in the vision of a sensible advice at a sensible cost. call us today!www.pinkneygrunwells.co.uk
copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group Space Shuttle funded entirely by private and institutional investors and put back into service to shape new markets." ...In the end, two crucial factors made it all but impossible to revive the shuttle program as a mercantile firm or in any fashion. One was that so much of the Shuttle footing has already been shifted to other efforts that the revival team could never pull simultaneously sufficient funds to return those reserves to the Space Shuttles. Two: The SLS program.'"

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