Tech...nology?

AOL touts: "NASA Ready for Redemption"

OK, Fun Facts. Since the advent of this type of space craft, there have been 14 casualties. Also interesting to note that there were no space travel related deaths from 1967 (Apollo I) til 1986 (Challenger).

Now, in 2003, Columbia blew up. This shuttle was 24 years old. 24. Years. Old. Now, I could be wrong, but as far as I know, the shuttles are built here in the USA. If US manufactured car performance is any indication, would YOU trust a Space Shuttle that was 24 goddamned years old? Seriously. Something has to change.

How about starting with an aesthetic upgrade??? Why does that damn thing still look like a glorified airplane??? Doesn't NASA watch Sci-fi? You can't tell me that the world's top engineers can't come up with some thing cooler looking that that monstrosity.
I mean, if Hollywood designers can come up with what amounts to one of the most bad-ass looking vehicles ever created, I think it stands to reason there's room for the NASA geeks to step things up a little.




I rest my case.