Just a thought here: I keep hearing things such as, "We can do this to get to the ISS, we can do that for the ISS..." Does anyone know what the ISS itself does or is supposed to do? That is, besides keeping astronauts in orbit? What purpose does the damn thing serve? Isn't it time to de-orbit the pile of junk and let it fall into the Pacific? Maybe Rob can take some shots of the flaming debris for us. Might be the most useful purpose it will ever serve. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <bau@desnews.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] NASA's plan to return to the moon | An interesting fact from Michael Griffin's press conference yesterday | (which I covered via Internet broadcast) is that he said the new rocket | could be used for the ISS. As if NASA cares what I think, I would advise | to scrap the shuttle now and get on with the new generation right away. By | the time they solve the foam-shedding problem it may be another couple of | years and they'll just have a dangerous vehicle to use for another three. | So let's put the station on hold for a while, get the new stuff going, and | forget about the shuttle. -- Joe | | | _______________________________________________ | Utah-Astronomy mailing list | Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com | http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy | Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com | | ______________________________________________________________________ | This e-mail has been scanned by Cut.Net Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on Cut.Nets Content Service, visit http://www.cut.net | ______________________________________________________________________ |