Re: Why 13 years?

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 20:15:09 GMT, in a place far, far away,
henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry Spencer) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>>...Do you think its
>>possible that any future congresses, senates and presidents will say cancel
>>VSE because its not sustainable financially...
>
>The way such things usually happen is that an ambitious, inspiring program
>doesn't get canceled, it just gets stretched out and postponed. (It may
>eventually get canceled, once it's become so attenuated and hypothetical
>that cancellation no longer means very much.)

IOW, about the state that ISS would be in, absent the international
agreements.
.

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