Re: Discovery "mission"

Alan Anderson wrote:

No, this is what a few hundred dollars is being spent on. It's still a lot of money in some terms, and still quite silly in most terms, but the cost of the fanfare surrounding the movie prop is a negligible fraction of the cost of the flight.

Except that NASA is using this silly nonsense to help justify the flight, which just like the rest of the manned program, appears to be a mission without a mission.

As the article I cited points out, Discovery will bring another module to the ISS. Which will give the astronauts there more room in which to accomplish nothing worthwhile.

Previously in this ng I have asked what the ISS is for. What is its mission, that is supposed to justify the billions spent, to justify the lives lost? I figured SOMEBODY here must know. All the response I got was the usual "nation prestige" stuff and Buck Rogers futurama fantasies about great things to come in the distant future.

This ridiculous publicity stunt just shows the level of desperation at NASA to justify this boondoggle. They've had a couple of real public relations disasters lately to deal with... now we have the specatacle of a government agency spending the taxpayers' money to promote a Lucasfilms franchise.
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