In article ,
Rand Simberg wrote:
Are you saying that the purpose of the lunar/Mars announcement was to
*save* the ISS?

I quote William Gerstenmaier, space station program manager:

We don't see hardly any changes to our program based on the new
initiative - we're pretty well aligned with it to begin with.

( http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1030986.htm )

And I quote Alex Roland, space historian:

The real purpose of the President's moon-Mars initiative is to
reprogram existing NASA funds over the next five years to keep the
space station from collapsing.

( http://www.floridatoday.com/columbia...201WROLAND.htm )

And I already quoted James Oberg: The space station is "NASA's priority
project".

It's a consistent picture from all sides.
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