On Mar 3, 8:35 pm, "kuhnfucius" wrote:
Is the space station a financial obligation thatNASAcongress desires to
get rid of for future & with hope pointing to projects they may or may not
finance? I don't see anyone willing to pickup the ball on this. The space
station modules were designed with the shuttle in mind and after the shuttle
is gone there will be a great washing of hands and slow decline into
obsolesete out post by 2015. Perhaps the DOE will have something else have
another target to practice on?

ISS would make for a terrific ABL or SBL target, wouldn't it, almost
as good as a returning Shuttle that was already over-loaded with all
of those nifty R&D shuttle prototype thermal sensors that DoD's
Raytheon/TRW and Boeing PhantomWorks had a live link to such thermal
data.
.. - Brad Guth