The dismal economic record of the space shuttle is well known. The safety flaws in the shuttle’s design are not as well known. When the first shuttle disaster hit seventeen years ago, we wrote the following letter in an effort to get a wider understanding of how dangerous the space shuttle is, and hopefully introduce some free market thinking. This letter was run in its entirety in the November 1986 edition of Physics Today, the general interest magazine of the American Physical Society. One other technical journal ran it in highly abbreviated form. As is typical in areas run by … Continue reading The Latest Shuttle Disaster