In a message dated 3/14/2001 5:19:49 PM Alaskan Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The Centrifuge Accommodation Module -- although it's being built by Japan --
> may now have to be dropped because of ISS' overall cost problems. If so,
> the very last of the original justifications used by NASA to talk Congress
> into funding the Station back in 1984 -- studies of how to keep people
> healthy during long-duration spaceflight -- will disappear, and we will
have
> a $40 billion orbiting white elephant with absolutely no use whatsoever (at
> least until some president with no sense of humor shuts it off).
>
> Actually, I'm wrong; the Station has fulfilled one function magnificently
--
> swindling the taxpayers out of $40 billion -- which, of course, is the only
> real reason NASA proposed it in the first place (as with the Shuttle). But
> now it's collided head-on with another grand government swindle -- Bush's
> tax-cut flim-flam -- so it has to go.
Bruce, you've pretty much gutted the whole ISS concept with your above
statements... so, you're suggesting that it's just a contemporary version of
Skylab and Mir?
Once again, it seems the best thing for the long-term development of space is
to get it away from NASA and the big boys. What's your take, Bruce? Anyone
else?
-- JHB
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