The best thing that could happen is scraping both programs and moving on.

Why?


If you freed up the $ being spent on ISS ^ shuttle they would quickly fund a
replacement manned orbiter and enough left over to get out of LEO./

As is they are a same old same old program/


Just how much science return do you expect to get from ISS? Down here on
Earth, most small science labs don't generate large returns. Given that the

We could of done much the same by putting up a man TENDED station.

Visited by the shuttle perodically like 5 times a year for resupply and repairs
microgravity reseatrch without people moving about would of been better, and
overall cost less too. have the experiments run telerobitically from the ground
by rotating shifts of researchers.

NASA wanted a station, the politicians wanted a exhibition of cooperation with
russia and they both got what they wanted.

Sadly the station lacks science....