We didn't fly a lot. Yeah. It was expensive. It also took a lot to get the space shuttle orbiter ready for a mission. Yeah. And Basically take it all apart and put it back together every time, which might not have been the smartest thing to do. Yeah. If there's something that goes wrong every 10,000 times, no one knows what that thing is because it's never happened. Because they haven't done it 10,000 times yet. (19:00–19:06)
CLAIM
Asserts that the process of disassembling and reassembling the space shuttle orbiter for each mission may have been inefficient.
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