Re: International Space Station

The ISS has taught us relatively little that we did not already know.
Anything that was done in ISS could have been done much more
cheaply and easily by other means.

The ISS should have been a Stanford Torus with provision to
grow into a completely autonomous self-sustaining habitat, for
indefinite habitation without resupply from Earth.
Anything else is just a poor copy of what Skylab did better
decades ago. Just reinventing the wheel for no real benefit.

The only real good that could come from ISS is to break it up
to be re-used in the construction of a real space habitat, or to
burn it for reaction mass in an Plasma/Ion Drive.

cheers


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