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NASA Considers Abandoning ISS

Posted by michael on from the okay-who-took-my-parachute dept.

mbstone writes "MSNBC is reporting that NASA is threatening to mothball the International Space Station unless Russia coughs up its share of the money for maintenance and support missions. NASA is now making "contingency plans" to leave the station unoccupied for as long as a year. What I want to know is, why a contingency plan? Didn't NASA already have a plan in place? Are U.S. taxpayers going to pay millions extra to develop new mothballing equipment and procedures that could have been designed-in at far less cost?? Also, I would be glad to house-sit, I use very little oxygen."

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  1. BUH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BUH

  2. 10th post !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    prolly not.....I got the 'slow down cowboy' thing. Humpfff.

  3. Re:If NASA is serious by Raul654 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Hrmm... I've always wanted someone to settle the question - "What happens to the human body when exposed to space". I mean, all the scifi shows show something different happening. So, we have some pratical use for those boy bands after all

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  4. BAH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BAH?

  5. sfcgfvxdcsb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:Tax payer's response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if you leftist fucks keep on increasing taxes, we're all gonna be homeless.

  7. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by cyt0plas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The moderator seemed to be in a little bit of a hurry. It was "ISS abandons Russia", not "Russia abandons ISS" :)

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  8. WTF?!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the hell is going on here?!!
    I post blatent flamebait like this and this and get modded up both times as funny?!!
    Is Jerry Pournelle a /. moderator?!!
    Damn, I should have posted logged on!
    Well, it's a nice change to get Nietcheian Republican moderator rather than the usual bunch of limp-wristed Socialist momma's boys.

  9. Be careful what you wish for by Ethelred+Unraed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you really think you want go up to the ISS, remember that there is no broadband Net access up there, and therefore no access to pr0n -- and even worse, there's no pizza delivery.

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

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  10. mod this UP by simong_oz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow ... someone mod this post up as high as possible. One of the most insightful posts I've seen on slashdot.

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  11. STOP MILITARY SPENDING!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    else you will go blind.