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ISS Construction Resumes
avtchillsboro writes "The NY Times has an article detailing new construction on the International Space Station (ISS) and the additions via coming Space Shuttle missions through 2010. From the article: 'For more than three years, the International Space Station has floated half-built above the Earth. Maintained by a skeleton crew, the station — an assemblage of modules and girders — has not come close to its stated goal of becoming a world-class research outpost. But now construction, which has hung in limbo since NASA's space shuttle fleet was grounded after the 2003 Columbia disaster, is scheduled to resume. The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off next Sunday carrying a bus-size segment of the station's backbone that includes a new set of solar-power arrays.'"
Because we voted in a conservative not a libertarian?
You know what is the funniest part...the whole construction was basically put on hold because the US space shuttle wasn't in use. How the hell can this thing be world built if we're the only freak'n people putting shit into space? How's about the rest of the world waste some of their cash to build rockets to pick up the slack? You know what will happen. The US will be the first major country to populate space and everyone will bitch about how we own this and that in space. We can never win. Yeah, I know some other parts are built by other countries, but it'd be nice to see other space shuttles actually get up there and help out. This thing would be a little more useful if it was getting various visits on a constant basis. Yes, making it that more dangerous...nothing happens without practice/risk.
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."