It was just a joke
As I only have a 500Mhz athlon processor and a small 2Gig HD, I was just hoping that thay would make it a small, not so power hungry game!
About the shuttle, that figures!
And NASA in general, well I did not know that! Does make sense though!
And as long as they do not come up with the bright idea of creating a computer AI like Skynet to control everything, that will be fine!