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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. Boot the Russians Out by RY · · Score: -1, Troll

    Evict the Russians if they are not willing or able to pay, rent the space out to someone who can like Pepsi.

  2. Conspiracy by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 0, Troll
    Right. Like we are supposed to believe that there were ever astronauts on the space station in the first place.

    "Yeah, we're, uh, 'demanning' it, yeah, yeah, that's the ticket, yeah."

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  3. Of course they'll pull out. by grub · · Score: -1, Troll



    George "Adolph" Bush needs all the money he can muster for his pet War on Terrorism and to train the jackbooted brownshirts that march in the Homeland Security office.

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  4. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Havoc'ing · · Score: 0, Troll

    our new economy iz to zimply commit and have otherz pay. Dah. is goot.

  5. Patrick Beaver would be proud of you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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