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The latest news from space-faring countries, agencies, industry and academia   ·   Wednesday 22 May 2013, 2.25pm GMT   ·   Nº 1755

Prophets of science fiction

20 June 2011

As the Space Shuttle program winds down, we’re reminded that the shuttles failed to meet the cost and flight rate predictions made during the program’s development in the 1970s. Dwayne Day notes that even during the ’70s some were skeptical of those claims.







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