Plans for International Space Station Cut Back

Sajma writes "Reuters is reporting: NASA and its space partners on Friday approved a scaled-down International Space Station with fewer astronauts and less science so the United States can meet a 2010 deadline for ending shuttle flights, a top NASA official said. Space agencies in Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan gave unanimous approval to a NASA plan that means the orbiting platform, now about half completed, will never become the beehive of scientific and commercial research once envisaged."

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Re:NASA's budget doesn't match its jobs.

[zors]

Without question, our star will last forever, and our planet will always been inhabitable.

Oh please, you cant honestly think this is a viable thing to hold against the bush administration do you? that in 3 billion years when our star collapses we won't be able to escape? As for the planet thing, arent you overstating the problem some?

poor America

[Doc Ruby]

When we had a $5T surplus we weren't scaling back science - we were keeping America's scientific leadership ahead, and briging the rest of the world along. Now that we're staring at a $10T debt, we're discarding science, embracing unprovable "faith" instead, and leading the world into a Dark Age of ignorance. The destruction of our knowledge-based economy is a free side effect.