Charles Buckley wrote:
And if you look over at the other post on here, you'll see all the
parts they did have fed over from Freedom.

I did, and it's a fraction of the station at best.

The structure is one of the cheaper cost items. Most of the costs are
in the design. Materials selection. Standards definition. Parts selection.
RFP for parts.

Yes, *parts*. The expensive part comes when you go from *parts* to a
*system* to a *station*.

Software definition and initial design.

Most of which had to be re-done, along with *much* else in order to
integrate the International partners.

All those came over or gave a huge start on ISS.

Gave a huge start on starting ISS, but you are overlooking there is a
lot of work after starting.


Just because you don't like the comparson, does not mean it
is invalid. ISS piggybacked off a lot of design/hardware from
Freedom and did not have to start from scratch.

Nowhere did I say I did not like the comparison. Nor did I say ISS
started from scratch, so take your strawmen elsewhere.


And you take yours that way. Pointing out that one side used
leveraged hardware without drawing any comparison to the other
is more than a bit misleading.

yawn All having nothing to do with either my original reply, or my
reply to your reply.

ISS had assembled management, designs, hardware, and goal all
prior to it's start. It was much further along when it got the greenlight
than Skylab in every single aspect.

Never mind that AAP was well along when Skylab was approved. Never
mind that Freedom had to be completely redesigned when the
international partners were added to make it ISS.

In other words, you are right, except for the massive parts where you
are wrong.


Take your pick on how to draw the lines, but ISS is more
expensive either as a stand-alone or as a leveraged piece of
hardware - even allowing for inflation.

It's hardly suprising that a more capable station is more expensive,
even allowing for inflation.


Umm. more capable in what way?

Just about every way other than astronomy and possibly earth sciences.

Arguably, it is not going to have nearly the manned capacity in terms of
science as Skylab. The crewed responsibility is running the station.

Guess what the Skylab crews responsobility was? Running the station.

D.
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