Why not recycle it up there I ask? Why not cut it up for a meteor shield or just bolt it on the outside for possible future use. Why? Because the whole space station/we will travel to other worlds scenario is crock! There is no real forward thinking anymore, just NASA contractors lining their pockets with the dwindling budget.
Look at the recent mars rovers, their just 30 year old technology with wheels added. Like the waste of resources during the final lunar landings where they took dune buggies up and played golf. With the payload they had available they could have built a telescope up there to rival the Hubble.
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/heather.../moonabout.htm
There were also complaints from scientists when they saw the astronauts fooling about in the limited time they had on the Moon and damaging expensive equipment. On the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard played golf with a soil sample scoop. On Apollo 16, John Young went for a joy ride on the Lunar Rover, skidding at high speed and also ruined a million dollar experiment. These larks, watched on television at home, did not convince the US government that money was better spent on space than war.
