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Discussion of privatizing the International Space Station. Lots of big, nifty pictures at the source.
1 posted on 07/08/2019 8:37:01 AM PDT by Jagermonster
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To: Jagermonster

Both the ISS and the shuttle program were expensive setbacks to space exploration. The shuttle could do nothing except haul cargo to and from low earth orbit. The ISS is parked in a useless orbit, serving only as a zero gravity laboratory. Where has any of that gotten us?


2 posted on 07/08/2019 8:45:37 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rktman

Ping.


3 posted on 07/08/2019 8:53:48 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jagermonster
An Aging Space Station Faces An Uncertain Future

Aging Space Station?!

It's a lot younger than Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris.

6 posted on 07/08/2019 9:43:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Jagermonster

Give it an outward nugde and send it to deep space.


7 posted on 07/08/2019 9:45:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


10 posted on 07/08/2019 10:31:51 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: Jagermonster

I’m still waiting for the Space Station depicted in the Movie 2001 capable of creating Artificial Gravity.

That or Elysium...


12 posted on 07/08/2019 11:59:08 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: Jagermonster

Skylab was big. We could launch several similar sized ones and put them together for a much bigger space station.
https://www.space.com/21106-nasa-skylab-2-space-station.html

Google: skylab vs iss size
Click on images


13 posted on 07/08/2019 9:14:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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