BTW, how much money did we put into this thing and they're just going to set it all on fire?!
It’s worse than that.
We very likely paid 80 to 90% of the total costs, then named it the international space station. We just put the last parts on it in 2010. Within months we can’t even get there to defend it.
Russia could deorbit the station today if they wanted too, and we couldn’t do squat about it.
We’ve had 40 years to design and build the replacement of the shuttle, and we’re headed towards developing an Apolo level capsule.
Wow...