Then what was the point of putting it up there in the first place? What science has been expanded by its being there? Has the ISS been useful at all?...............................
To: Red Badger
Rubbing salt in the wound. The One made us abandon space travel because it “offends” Him. We can’t do anything to stop them.
2 posted on
07/27/2011 12:45:57 PM PDT by
pabianice
To: Red Badger
Has the ISS been useful at all?.Yes.
3 posted on
07/27/2011 12:46:13 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Red Badger
Can’t they just shoot it out into space? Was a waste of time and money anyway—should have been stomping around on Mars by now.
4 posted on
07/27/2011 12:47:22 PM PDT by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Red Badger
No. A complete waste of money.
5 posted on
07/27/2011 12:47:40 PM PDT by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: Red Badger
This makes it sound like Roscosmos makes the decision.
They don't.
9 posted on
07/27/2011 12:48:48 PM PDT by
Regulator
(Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
To: Red Badger
“Launched in 1998, the ISS...”
Very misleading. The first piece went up in 1998; but, I remember touring NASA in 2000, and touring mock-ups of all the stuff that had yet to be launched.
Wikipedia says it is ‘expected to be finished in 2012’.
So literally this thing will spend 8 years in space as a completed component.
10 posted on
07/27/2011 12:49:39 PM PDT by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
What I can’t figure is they’ve spent billions and billions of dollars to haul all that mass off of earth and into orbit. Why just drop it back into the ocean? Why not boost it up into some parking orbit, where it will be out of the way and then it will be there if for nothing else, then spare parts for some future space station. Of course that sound too much like common sense, and nobody ever accused the powers that be of having that
13 posted on
07/27/2011 12:52:26 PM PDT by
apillar
To: Red Badger
Auction it off on E-Bay...
Buyer MUST arrange shipping and delivery..(G)
16 posted on
07/27/2011 12:55:15 PM PDT by
ken5050
(Save the earth..it's the ONLY planet with CHOCOLATE!!!)
To: Red Badger
By then Bigelow Aerospace will have inflatable hotels orbiting the Earth lifted into place by the Falcon 9 rocket family care of SpaceX.
17 posted on
07/27/2011 12:55:33 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: All
The reason you can’t boost it into earth-escaping flight/travel is a matter of pure economics. It would actually take A LOT (and we’re talking REALLY a lot) of fuel to boost its speed beyond the necessary amount to escape earth’s gravity.
On the other hand, it really only takes a small, calculated, well-timed nudge to bring it down in the South Pacific. It probably has the fuel on board as we speak to do that.
18 posted on
07/27/2011 12:56:56 PM PDT by
GreenAccord
(Bacon Akbar)
To: Red Badger
How about using it for target practice for some long range missiles?
30 posted on
07/27/2011 1:04:41 PM PDT by
GQuagmire
('Don't Piss The Lady Off')
To: Red Badger
Make sure you get those empty soda cans into the designated recycle bin. Remember: Only You Can Safe the Planet!
To: Red Badger
Put it in orbit around the moon.
41 posted on
07/27/2011 1:17:18 PM PDT by
Iron Munro
(The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
To: Red Badger
As much as I'd hate to see all that expensive hardware wasted, there is a small matter of maintenance cost.
It ain't cheap keeping a space station in working order.
What we need is a much more robust and permanent outpost in a higher orbit that won't decay so fast and better launch vehicles to get there.
I'm hoping that the niche the shuttle is leaving behind will be filled by something better.
If the gov't can avoid interfering (fat chance), we might just get it.
45 posted on
07/27/2011 1:41:48 PM PDT by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Red Badger
Space junk is becoming an increasingly serious headache. A piece of space debris narrowly missed the space station last month in a rare incident that forced the six-member crew to scramble to their rescue craft. LOL, yeah, I'll bet it is.
47 posted on
07/27/2011 2:30:39 PM PDT by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
To: Red Badger
The ISS accomplished nothing scientifically. There was no reason for another low earth orbit space station. We already had Skylab in the 1970’s and that was a waste also.
49 posted on
07/27/2011 3:12:06 PM PDT by
iowamark
To: Red Badger
Now just how? are we going to build a new ship in ,the Kenyan model out of cow dung and sticks!
51 posted on
07/27/2011 3:27:33 PM PDT by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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