Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Cool machine. Can't wait to see it up close one day for whoever forks out the $40M. I was always a new technology kind of guy but maybe I get older I start to think retro can be kind of cool. Whether it's a DC9, 727, DC10 or Beech 18, so going back to (whether it one day happens at NASA or a private company) to rockets and capsules landing in the water is kind of cool.

But the shuttle was some kind of Gnarly Gnarlington Space Assassin awesomeness.