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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts by PerfectDlite on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:48AM (#13492896)
> I think it's generally agreed upon that the Space Shuttle program was needlessly wasteful and more PR- than science-driven.

Soviets decided to replicate it. So even if it was PR, it was a good PR - it managed to trick USSR to waste quite an effort.

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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts by mikeash on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:08PM (#13493102)
Considering that the Buran program was much less active and only had a single launch, the ROI on that wastage seems like it would have been rather low.
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