Mini-Shuttle Gets 2016 Launch Date

If NASA had taken this route 40 years ago and left cargo to the heavy lift vehicles of the day we would have been far better off.

looks amazingly like the X-38 that Scaled Composites was building for a crew return vehicle does it not? last I heard the carcass of the flight hardware was sitting under a tarp outside one of the buildings out at JSC waiting for the salt air to completely render it useless.

I was out walking when the last Shuttle launched and did not have my camera, but the horribly twisted vapor trail was ironic.

This has been the direction of NASA ever since the the last Moon landing.