G'day Everyone.
You have GOT-TO-BE-KIDDING-ME! I said this because when I was surfing on CNN.com, I came across this article: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/ , http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071201977.html
What it says is this: NASA wants to junk the International Space Station in just 6.5 years from now. Just after it gets completed in 2010 and the space shuttles do their final flights.
My reaction? YOU_HAVE_GOT_TO_BE_DAMN_KIDDING_ME, NASA! When we, as a group of nations, that have spent years to construct the space station, we have prayed, sweat, worked, and grieved for the the number of special men and women who do their job to give us an International Space Station that replaces the Russian MIR (peace) Space Station, and USA's Skylab. When we take part of the world's resources to create a place that helps us to look in the field of technology and space, we have a very unique place. Even when we have used billions of dollars to do it.
Now NASA says in just 6.5 years it won't be worth it any more? Excuse me! The ISS would make a practical place in an emergency when we start launching for the moon again. We need a place for astronauts to go to when there's a problem with the moon rockets. Remember Apollo 13? That was a time men wished that there was an orbiting post that was there for emergencies.
Hello! ISS now provides that place in space.
So if NASA wants to trash the ISS in 2016, then maybe NASA should be disbanded and a NEW SPACE AGENCY can be created that will take responsibility for future space science work. It's a shame that NASA didn't develop new shuttles that would take our nation farther into the 20th century. Going back to the moon should not be the only thing our nation needs.
If we dump the ISS for good, like Skylab (ah the days we wished Skylab would hit a few places for money, but instead Skylab hit the drink), we could never come up with another world-like together project and create something useful to mankind.
I say keep the ISS where it is. We may have a use for it another day in the 21st century. It should stay in orbit as an achievement to mankind and the astronauts of Challenger!
Semper FI
1 comment:
I second you. We pay all our tax dollars help building the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. Why would they want to trash it in 2015
with all those other Countries help building it? If that happens, all the other countries will either go to war to destroy the United States for trashing the Space Station or sued the United States to force the United States to break up into different parts and run by other Countries. The way I see it, either of those two cases, this is the last of the United States that won't survived beyond 2015 if the Space Station gets de-orbit. I hope NASA thinks twice before they trash and abandon the Space Station.
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