Brian Thorn wrote in
:

On 17 Oct 2010 14:08:30 GMT, Jose Pina Coelho
wrote:


Will anyone learn anything from not funding a replacement ahead of
decommisioning of the ISS? From what I read nobody seems to be
thinking about it at all AGAIN.

Why keep it up if you can get more profit from rebuilding it from
scratch again ?

That's a humongous 'if'.

Only the private sector realizes profits. And if they get contracted for a
new full space station instead of "add 5 modules to the existing one" they
get ore profit.