Re: COULD THE ISS BECOME A RUSSO-EUROPEAN PROJECT?

From: Greg Kuperberg (greg_at_conifold.math.ucdavis.edu)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:24:31 +0000 (UTC)

In article <cFqQc.12$KZ2.4@fe2.texas.rr.com>,
Jim Oberg <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote:
}It is becoming increasingly difficult to tally US declarations about the
}International Space Station (ISS) with reality. On the one hand, President
}Bush and NASA have given repeated assurances that the US still sees the ISS
}as a unique international project in manned space flight. On the other hand,
}words alone cannot make equipment, especially sophisticated space equipment,
}keep functioning.

Truer words were never spoken - never mind that the rest of the article
has a lot of hot air. The ISS is an embarrassment, a fiasco, and
a quagmire. There is no exit strategy. The "plan" to have 28 shuttle
flights before the shuttle is retired in 2010 is at best wishful thinking.
NASA and Washington are limping along with the shuttle and the station
just to save face. 

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