To End The FReepathon
That means the ISS will become an orbiting Russian battle station.
Don’t let them kid you: The USA is as broke as the USSR was in 1989.
Somebody look at this chart and tell me this is where we should start cutting the budget:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Fy2010_spending_by_category.jpg
We’re leaving ISS because we’re going to the moon. In about 50 years.
We are gifting it to the Russians. We already rely on the Russians for taxi service. Pathetic.
Taking Moooslims along? (Actually, the moon would be a great place for all of them. After all, they worship it.)
Or Russia is about to take back ownership of most of the station anyway. Just another way for NASA to ‘look good’ while actually doing nothing on a shrinking budget, with a shrinking workforce, whose Mars run will end up being canceled in some future budget, so they can concentrate on climate change and muslim outreach.
This decision to drop involvement in the ISS is mostly a cost-cutting move. Right now, NASA has a budget of around $3 billion every year. By 2020, this figure is expected to reach around $4 billion.
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So NASA is finally admitting it was a boondoggle as it upgrades to the next boondoggle.
“but now it’s slowly spreading its wings, making it known that it is letting go of the facility to pursue its goals of flying beyond low-Earth orbit”
This the same NASA that cant get anyone to the ISS at the moment? THAT nasa?
Obama set a priority of Muslims relations for NASA so when I read the headline I saw “ISIS”.
What they need to do is focus on ROBOTIC development of the moon. Manned missions are to risky and too expensive. Robots are cheaper and less risky and more to the point, they would advance new technology and position us to maximize the spinoff value of space exploration. We need to become the world leader of robotic technology.
If we leave who pays the cable and garbage service?
ISS is heading for the moon?