The International Space Station is a wonder of science. Its value is not much. All they do could be done at a fraction of the cost via highly advanced satellites. The ISS is a political entity and not driven by science though it does science.
Bring them home and de orbit the station over the South Pacific and use our monies in efficient science research.
We now have plans to go back to the Moon, it is idiocy. We can do it at great cost. What knowledge will be gained by a mission that is mainly concerned with payload to keep the human alive and not science. Robotics are cheap and when they fail a human does not die.
When lift to orbit and to the moon is economic I have not problems with man or women on the moon. It is not economic today and just political theater.
** It is not economic today and just political theater.**
That doesn’t matter to the global elite, they just make the working class fund, build, and risk their lives for those expensive projects.
Well said. The proposed manned flights to Mars are greater, um, lunacy.
That’s exactly what I say about it.
There are manufacturing processes that they are learning to do in zero gravity that can’t successfully be done on Earth. There is a wealth of information online about the development of zero gravity manufacturing, and the possibilities of what it means are amazing.
You can only live and work in space by learning to live and work in space. Yes, automated robotics is much cheaper. But you are not getting real world living experience doing that.