Don't be stupid. The space station was built and is maintained by 16 different nations.
How about you try to refrain from being stupid?
The US has spent about $25.9 billion dollars on the ISS. I know we have a wide variety of international “partners” on the project, but they contributions fall somewhat short of ours.
Of course, the thing just never would have gotten up there without the $30 light dimmer switches from our Brazilian “partners.”
For you to say that this is somehow costing the US money is absurd. You should be embarrassed.
I never said that particular trip will cost us money directly. Learn to read. I said the space station cost us money. Huge amounts of money. Most of that money would have been better spent on science than “international relations”. The ISS is a corrupt boondoogle whose mission is all about UN-style feel good dopiness, with actual science and space exploration a mere footnote. If you can’t see that, you’re an idiot.
People please. You are needlessly deriding each other when there are much easier targets for your insults right in this article. I mean look at it. They want to make a space suit out of traditional batik! What until someone tells them that their prayer rugs will be weightless.
"I never said that particular trip will cost us money directly."
Then why are you whining about it? I agree with you that the ISS is a huge waste of money but that isn't the Russians fault. They didn't spend a dime of American taxpayer money. American politicians are the ones who pi$$ed that money away.
BTW, the money would not have been better spent on science. All government spending is wasteful and corrupt. It would have been better spent by the taxpayers who earned it.