Corporate boondoggle. The ISS is itself a purposeless enterprise, serving as little more than a government jobs program for eggheads. The ISS is due to be de-orbited in 2030. No need to wait that long. Get all the astronauts off and drop it in the ocean as soon as possible.
Ask Elon Musk.
We may be better off if we're focusing our resources on finding a way to go to Mars. Maybe we need to dismantle NASA. They were great in the '60s. But like you said, it's nothing more than a government jobs program today.
The only real purpose the ISS had was burning up a stockpile of Soviet era boosters and now they can’t even do that.
“The ISS is itself a purposeless enterprise, serving as little more than a government jobs program for eggheads. The ISS is due to be de-orbited in 2030. No need to wait that long. Get all the astronauts off and drop it in the ocean as soon as possible.”
Agreed—before somebody gets killed up there.