“The Space Shuttle is outdated equipment and technology and ending the program was a good idea.”
We have a 100 Billion dollar investment floating around in space and now have no access to it, unless we pay the RUssians. They DOUBLED their last fee.
You think THAT is a good idea?
I hate to tell you this, but the ISS is not an investment. Seriously. Investments pay you back. The ISS not so much. And with a few inventive companies working on the problem, getting held up by the Russians will be a problem for maybe another 2-3 years. After that, we’ll be flying people better faster and cheaper than they will, and just maybe we can start to get some back from ISS. Myself, I’m not sure that humans add value in space that robots can’t do better. Jury is still out even after the Hubble repair. Hopefully the politicians and lawyers (but I repeat myself) can just stay the **** away. http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php SpaceX is already under contract with NASA to do this stuff.
We have a 100 Billion dollar investment floating around in space...