[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The ISS is ill conceived, and less than functional. Get the people off and enjoy the light show as it re-enters the atmosphere.

It DID make millionaires of a lot of Russian gangsters. Isn't that what the Left is all about? Spreading the wealth around?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Let's take what we've learned with the shuttle and ISS, apply it to a self-sufficient Mars base/colony and cut our loses. Skip the moon, it adds nothing to the Mars goal except cost.