It's an expensive albatross, if there ever was one.
I disagree, the problem is its functionality has been pared back to
much, it needs to be expanded!
:)
dmh
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From: David M Harland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: More jolly Space Station news
It's an expensive albatross, if there ever was one.
I disagree, the problem is its functionality has been pared
Bruce
You complain that a crew of three will only barely be able to keep
the ISS operating... so finish the habitation module and have a crew
of six, or two modules and have a crew of nine. Italy has offered to
build the module in return for NASA launching an Italian life
sciences
Bruce said:
If I told you what I REALLY think of the Station, this site would probably
get yanked off the Web.
Actually, though, it's quite possible to conceive of a Station that would
have been far more defensible -- namely, one made of a series of similar
self-contained modules that could be
Don't forget that the actual cost
of every Shuttle maintenance flight (despite NASA's attempts to cover it up
with highly creative bookkeeping) is about $1 billion. That's one hell of a
lot of additional money for a trickle of useful science.
They'd make those launches anyway, for one reason
