NASA Plans to De-Orbit $100B ISS in Q1 2016

[Saquist]

Michael T. Suffredini, the NASA space station program manager, has announced that despite the fact that the ISS is only now nearing completion, there are already plans to de-orbit the station. The last of the components for the ISS are set to be in place next year and according to Suffredini, the station is currently planned to crash back to Earth in 2016.

http://www.dailytech.com/NASA+Plans+to+DeOrbit+100B+ISS+in+2016/article15680.htm

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Possibly with some lobbying in the next 5 years they will get funding to not go forward with this current plan.

This is so stupid it's mind boggling.
If you can't afford it then sell it.
But if that station goes there is zero possibility for furthering human space exploration with out a zero G platform. Future endeavors will be stifled by the cost to launch from Earth than say from production facilities on the moon and near by asteroids.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Of course it's stupid, it's the government!