You do not think people living continuously in space for 10 years is a feat worth doing?
....Bob
My gripe is that the ISS will continue to overwhelm any other NASA program. As the article states, extending the ISS will draw funds away from the manned Moon/Mars missions as well as the unmanned program. To me, circling the Earth every 90 minutes isn’t that exciting. Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge space buff (I have about 50 books on the subject and as a kid woke up in the middle of the night to see the moonwalks).
I am afraid that the lack of visible exploration by man (to go where no man has gone before!) will doom the space program as a whole, and will make it easier to cancel completely.