Now that its there, when it expires, it will be a show to watch how it must be dissembled for safe re-entry.
A pyromaniacs Christmas wish!!!
Isn’t it grand to have an adult in the White House?
Come on. We all know NASA is intended to be a muslim outreach program
Now that its there, when it expires, it will be a show to watch how it must be dissembled for safe re-entry.
A pyromaniacs Christmas wish!!!
Rent out rooms for tourists.
Weren’t the Russians doing that for a while?
Ping.
The ISS is nothing more than a zero gravity laboratory. It’s parked in a useless orbit allowing it to be accessed by as many countries as possible, but itself cannot access the rest of the solar system. It only has one window for viewing space. What we need is a base on the moon that could at least be used as a staging area for missions to the other planets and asteroids.
All we’re doing is subsidizing other countries forays into space and giving away our technological advantages. I hope Trump stops this stupidity.
End NASA altogether and let private business take it over.
“more than $100 billion to build and support”
Up from the $8 billion that was the alleged fab/launch cost in the 1980s when the thing started (’member “Space Station Freedom”, folks?)
What a disgusting, lying, bigoted, trashy article. It’s anti-intellectual trash with an obvious and severe hatred for all scientists. You want the truth? Here’s is just a tiny sample of the discoveries made possible by ISS:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003440010050
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3264962/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02114.x
http://gravitationalandspacebiology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/547/604
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.91578.2008
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00489.2013
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/19/39/395006/meta
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0956-5663(09)00372-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2042201/?tool=pubmed
This is just a very small list, one for every single snarky “.” the idiot who wrote that article used in place of an actual discovery enabled by ISS. Whether or not ISS should be continued past 2025, this writer has done nothing but discredit himself.
He probably has an abusive girlfriend.
But Tang!!
What about Tang??!
They are discovering new flavors right now!
Reportedly a secret NASA report found that on two occasions the astronauts being sent to the space station were drunk at the time of liftoff. I suppose that's one way of coping with anxiety. And I would assume that they had time to sober up before they actually docked with the space station. Of course if they were joining Russians at the space station, maybe it wouldn't matter.
Even though there is some truth and Budgets do need to be adhered too, I find the article disagreeable.
IMHO the engineering and complexity and execution alone is more than enough to build it.
We all dream of a colonized moon, asteroid mining and space station on both ends. All of those are elephants that have to be eaten, and the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Rent the space, a million a cubic foot/day. Private companies would stampeed for the space, other companies would pop up like fleas to deliver people and material.
Send the cash to treasury, fund NASA as a separate line, let them launch microbots to the least likely places in the universe to discover everything of no value.
Crystals and metals produced in 0g are still classified for a reason. We have the people and the technology... only thing stopping them dead is... government.
Spend the money on cheaper planetary missions.
Wait a second. You left off the discovery of how to make the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System.