Posted on 08/30/2022 1:55:30 PM PDT by FarCenter
Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above?
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WHY??? Alot of $$$$$$ to just piss off.
Remember when the Space Station was going to be the beginning of our permanent presence in space?
NASA should just fold up shop and hand space exploration over to the adults.
The ISS at 23 years old is the oldest continually manned spacecraft in operation ever.
Imagine a Navy ship in continuous operation for 23 years. It’s impressive.
The ISS at this point is at the end of its service life. Nostalgia aside, its time is at an end and it needs to come down.
The USS Nimitz has been in service for 47 years.
But will there be free tacos?
I just hope it lands on one of Biden's houses.
“The USS Nimitz has been in service for 47 years.”
And it’s been in port and in the yard for massive refit how many times during those years? That is not continuous service with the engines on constantly.
Now imagine it at sea for 23 years. Never coming into port, always dependent on resupply while underway. And never able to maintain the engines because they always have to be on.
Parts of it have been in service for 27 years but they have been adding modules and structures for most of that time. I don’t see how any of that needs to come down. A lot of money and booster rockets and space shuttle missions were spent putting that stuff up there. Any failure to keep it up there is a failure of the intellectual capacity of the people in charge. Let’s just send a couple of hundred billion dollars up there and then wait until it falls down. Then we can start all over and build a new one that will be way better. It should not take much effort to move it to a higher orbit where it can float around for another 27 years.
Reminds me of the old Skylab deorbit as a kid. I remember clearly seeing that thing in a low orbit sunset blaze of glory on its final path.
Remember when the Space Station was going to be the beginning of our permanent presence in space?
Humans haven’t set foot on it for half a century now. Ah, progress!
It only has to be leak free on the bottom. ;)
Or instead of maintaining an experimental space station why not put the effort into something more permanent and in a more useful (and safer) geosynchronous orbit?
I had a program manager who had more things go down in flames than NASA could ever dream of.
There’s a great documentary about a failed base on the moon and why it was such a bad idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BXaGEuqxo
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Wow. My uncle was the head design engineer for the HVAC system on the ISS and I remember when he told me what he was doing.
Look at the B-52.
The B-52 has been operational since 1955. The H models are still active and were produced in 1960-1962. They are still our frontline bomb truck and are as old as I am 62 years.
“The ISS at this point is at the end of its service life. Nostalgia aside, its time is at an end and it needs to come down.”
Only a Chinese or Russian puppet would suggest that, since they’ll have the only Space Stations in orbit (China now, Russia soon).
So who pays you to side with our enemies?
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