A Brief History of the Space Station

HyperbolicParabaloid writes "A story about the history of the International Space Station, and its utility or non-utility for space exploration. One interesting insight: after the Challenger explosion it became obvious that we would never refuel a rocket with volatile fuel at a space station because the threat to the station would be so great. And did you know that to accomodate the Russians, the space station is in an orbit that makes it almost useless as a jumping off point to anywhere?"

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Re:Uh, no

[Samuel Duncan]

How they got to moon then, Mr. Clever ?

What's more useless than a flying garbage can?

[im a fucking coward]

Human sacrifices on mars.

Sure, you laugh, but what are astronauts burned up in billion dollar bottle rockets if not human sacrifices to NASA's stupidity? Intrepid explorers? Baah, you're part of the problem set then, not the solution set.

Burn down NASA before they blow themselves up, or send up another rover with 8 year old technology.