3rd February 2003, 7:29 PM
Spaceshuttles are at the very edge of human mechanics as we know it...it's pretty remarkable to go to space and return. It is damn near impossible, at that. That is why astrounauts are the best of the best, they are the only ones that can handle such complex machines. (Columbia is the most complex machine ever built) IMO, a simpler space shuttle is hardly concievalbe right now...in a hundred or so years maybe. But we do not have the technology to make a less complex machine go into space right now. People take for granted how much training and technology is needed to go into space...and how every time you are risking your life. I guess that's what TV does to you.