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Just as it says on the tin, what if in deciding NASA's post Apollo future Nixon chose to pursue the option of a new reusable spacecraft to service a proposed permanent space station. From the concepts I've seen of the proposed Space Shuttle it looked really cool but I've read that there were concerns that it was too technically ambitious and would have been expensive to develop. How would the U.S. space programme have developed if the Shuttle had got the go ahead?