August 06, 2004

Could the ISS become a Russo-European Project? Novosti

Posted by jburk to General News at August 6, 2004 01:59 PM

It is becoming increasingly difficult to tally US declarations about the International Space Station (ISS) with reality. On the one hand, President Bush and NASA have given repeated assurances that the US still sees the ISS as a unique international project in manned space flight. On the other hand, words alone cannot make equipment, especially sophisticated space equipment, keep functioning. Money is needed for the final version of the space station to appear in all its beauty, complete with new Russian and US-Canadian elements, the European Columbus orbital facility and the Japanese Kibo module.
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I do not feel that any American would want to see this happen with regards to sending astronauts to the ISS.
We should be trying to make the most out of every dollars spent on this international project not just giving up because of budgetry problems.
America's space program is grinding to a halt at this point and needs new blood to re-envigurate it again to the vintage of the 60's apollo era spirit.

Posted by: Harold LaValley at August 9, 2004 08:25 AM