Capsules go up and shuttles come down!

No. Not under any circumstance. Where do you expect the fuel to come from? The shuttle achieves orbit through the thrust delivered by the two solid rocket boosters and the main engines - which are fuelled from the external fuel tank (the big orange thing in the pictures).

 

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Shut up, read, and learn, kid;

This is where your ill conceived idea falls to bits. There is a fuel cost launching the materials. As gravity is a conservative field, it costs the same to launch the materials to construct a rocket in space as it would cost to launch a complete rocket from the Earth. THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS.

It's not about reading comprehension, it's about overall comprehension, and you clearly do not understand that your proposal does not save any energy whatsoever. In fact, your idea would use MORE fuel when you factor in the cost of constructing your station.

Having worked on a few I can say categorically they aren't.

We do not have teleportation. The closest we have so far is quantum entanglement, but it doesn't solve any problems, it's just a neat quirk.

Was the 'deflector shield' from Star Trek magnetic? I thought it was just a vague handwave, and it was never covered in any technical detail.

So? We create tiny amounts of anti-matter for research. What bearing does that have?

They were also current science when Star Trek was penned. All the writers did, was borrow from science. It's not a case of life imitating art, but the other way around.

 

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can nasa pull away if they get enough funds?

 

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... No they can't they could fly the shuttle one final time in orbit and use it's cargo bay to transform it exhaust in a VASIMR engine and cut bit's of it of that aren't necesairy and leave it in orbit so Orion would be nothing more then a coffin ship that's only function is to reach the shuttle and refuel it and use that as a mobile station.

... But then again they let MIR burn... No the can't NASA can't think that way.