IF we get a larger space program, it will probably be rockets again.
The Space Shuttle fleet was originally only going to be a temporary measure. There is very little that we did with shuttles that we couldn't have done with rockets.
Given that Maglev is fairly new, would YOU want to be the first to try it?
I only wish we would have found Gold nuggets the size of baseballs on the moon way back then.
We'd probably would have operational MINES on the moon by now...
