[messierhunter]

What a disgusting, lying, bigoted, trashy article. It’s anti-intellectual trash with an obvious and severe hatred for all scientists. You want the truth? Here’s is just a tiny sample of the discoveries made possible by ISS:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003440010050
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3264962/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02114.x
http://gravitationalandspacebiology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/547/604
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.91578.2008
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00489.2013
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/19/39/395006/meta
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0956-5663(09)00372-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2042201/?tool=pubmed
This is just a very small list, one for every single snarky “.” the idiot who wrote that article used in place of an actual discovery enabled by ISS. Whether or not ISS should be continued past 2025, this writer has done nothing but discredit himself.

[raygunfan]

so none of these can be done successfully on earth or by private funding for the ISS???

[ASOC]

Sadly, I am in the ‘waste of money camp’

For all the links posted, point to a single new product, process or medicine useful to Americans... you can’t.

Weathersats - god stuff. Geo and LOE com birds, super -duper.

A multi-billion white elephant made to provide a reason to work with the now very former Soviet Union - not so much.

It’s OK, I see the Hubble as a giant waste of taxpayer dollars as well.

The Hubble replacement gizmo is way over budget and years behind schedule. As is nearly every NASA ‘project’ of late. Shuttle replacement anyone?

NASA has outlived it’s cost.

BTW - as a taxpayer, I really do get to have a say in this....

[outofsalt]

"What a disgusting, lying, bigoted, trashy article."

Thank you! The space station has contributed to Medicine, Telecommunications, Materials development, Weather on earth as well as solar dynamics. A "window" is not a scientific instrument.
Now, it is getting old.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Molecular Aspects of Stress-Gene Regulation During Spaceflight”

Pass.

[miliantnutcase]

Agreed. As conservatives we are better than to trash something that isn't understood. The space program brought us countless advances we take for granted. They see articles where a NASA scientist pushes global warming and they think everyone there only shills on that. NASA like any government agency is filled with it's share of worthless bureaucrats but it just needs real executive leadership. NASA is being forced to compete and off-load it's work to private firms which is a healthy change. Obama drastically cut NASA and then changed it's research priority from getting to Mars to . If we get beat to Mars by China or another country set to weaponize space we will be in real trouble.