Re: International Space Station

In article <byDFg.44$Bu2.6@trndny02>, vze3gz45 <vze3gz45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anything that was done in ISS could have been done much more
cheaply and easily by other means.

If what you say is true, why have not other orginizations achieved this?
Why are NASA and the Russians and no one else the only people that put up
space stations with people in them.

Because, as has been explained to you repeatedly, they've been the only
ones who could get money to do it. Your reasoning is circular: you claim
that nobody else is a credible alternative because none of them has done
it, and that they should not be funded to try because they are not
credible alternatives.

...no other orgainization (other than the
Russian Space Program) can do the same thing, cheaper or for the same price.

How do you know that? Please explain, with proper attention to the
difference between "can do" and "have already done". People and companies
constantly attempt things that they have never done before, and often they
succeed.
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