Another reason the ISS is a waste of space (
). A short sighted, post-cold war exercise in touchy-feely international relations.
Nobody's doing anything up there that couldn't be done more efficiently by a machine. All that dosh could've gone onto putting equipment and supplies on the moon ready to DIY together. The amount of top-notch Radio Astronomy that could be done, fairly simply, on the far-side is incredible.
ISS should have been a space hotel charging squillions to wealthy space buffs. That way they'd have some left $ over and have a much better idea of how real people react to long-term spac-edness (word?).
OUR place is exploring other worlds, not farting around in NEO.
And that's all I have to say about THAT!
