[Gene Eric]

>> if we want a space station we’re going to need to build it ourselves.

And we should.

My national budget covers the Military, intelligence agencies, and NASA. USPS (which I adore) pays its own bills. No taxation for anything else.

So yeah, let’s build cutting edge space stations.

[jmcenanly]

We are. The BA 330 has the internal volume of Skylab, but can be carried up on the Falcon 9, which seems to be launching every other week.

[odawg]

” if we want a space station we’re going to need to build it ourselves.

The space station was initially solely American. The technology still is. But Bill and Hillary were elected, and they wanted the money to spend on social programs. Hillary also canceled, on her own, the following (from Wikipedia):

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the Desertron[1]) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas, that was set to be the world’s largest and most energetic, surpassing the current record held by the Large Hadron Collider. Its planned ring circumference was 87.1 kilometres (54.1 mi) with an energy of 20 TeV per proton. The project’s director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Louis Ianniello served as its first Project Director for 15 months.[2] The project was cancelled in 1993 due to budget problems.[3]