It was ALL wrong for its mission.
I noticed this when I was in high school many years ago. What in the world are they putting in orbit that big? Then it hit me, they were not using it to place stuff in orbit cut to recover intact stuff from orbit. Must be spy satellites.

In fact its real mission was not relieved until later. Which in fact it never did do that mission.
http://www.space.com/12996-secret-spy-satellites-declassified-nro.html
By the time it was capable of recovering the satellite the US never used film type spy satellites again.
The CCD has taken over the industry.

The shuttle was WAY to big for it later missions and was never needed to place payloads into orbit. Standard rockets did that just fine.

All payloads after that were always designed to fit the shuttle.

Without the HUGE military and spy money coming into NASA for the shuttle program it was a total waste of money to use as a launch vehicle.
And NASA has yet to recover from that psychologically. They still think the cash bucket is bottomless.

Private industry is now doing everything NASA should have done from 1985 till now. And doing it cheaper, faster, and I bet safer. They do not have the US government backing them up insurance wise if something fails. Something falls on a house guess who pays? Not the US government.

Do you Think that you could Learn when to Capitalize and when to Not?

There will be loss of life in commercial space. Shuttle, with the world’s best engineering and technical support, and the world’s largest economy behind it, still killed 14 people. This is not easy stuff, but the people doing it fully understand the risks. That there are multiple private space efforts isn’t what’s remarkable, it’s the fact that we live in a society where it’s even possible.