“ISS is a hugely expensive waste of cash. No scientific value.”
Iowamark is right. The ISS either reproduces knowledge we already have, or the knowledge that is new can be obtained in much cheaper ways. The ISS is a “make work” program for NASA.
NASA is a Clowert Piven agenda to siphon funds from the military space program. While NaSA was losing the space race to sputnik, our military space program was roaring and had already been there and done that.
“Iowamark is right. The ISS either reproduces knowledge we already have, or the knowledge that is new can be obtained in much cheaper ways. The ISS is a “make work” program for NASA.”
Your comment is a flatout lie. You cannot possibly know such a thing to be true, because it is demonstrably false.
International Space Station
Science Research Accomplishments During the
Assembly Years: An Analysis of Results from
2000-2008
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20090029998.pdf