No they weren't mistakes.
Of course the Spruce Goose wasn't a mistake either...It pushed the limits of Flight at the time.
It worked as designed for the most part as it actually could fly.
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- Were the shuttle and ISS mistakes?
- The use of Thiokol's solid rocket boosters for the shuttle was a terrible and costly mistake
- Only if we didn’t learn from them.
- No they weren't mistakes.
- Yes - Mistakes that destroyed NASA
- NOPE.......
- Absolutely postively YES
- As concepts, no.
- Both are vehicles in search of a mission
- No
- re: Were the shuttle and ISS mistakes?
- re: After 1986