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...pounds is supposedly bankrolling the work, it's American dollars that are really keeping it going. The project is also 14 years behind schedule and will probably slip further before construction on the 360-ft.-long, 460-ton skyliner is done. Worst of all, once the ISS gets into orbit, there are very real concerns about whether it will have anything truly useful...
Barring a catastrophe, there is little likelihood that the space station won't fly. Too much money has been spent and too much metal has been cut for it to be scrapped now. But however much work the ISS eventually does, the lessons it yields will probably be less scientific than bureaucratic--lessons about how, and how not, to get a project like this done. "Most of the functions of the space station have disappeared," says Alex Roland, chairman of the department of history at Duke University and a former NASA historian. "NASA is mortgaging its future for the next...
...message for the elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that?s my attitude." Will he return to space yet again? Only if his wife, Annie, lets him, said the senator, and only if there were "some rising demand." Considering the trouble NASA is having getting the ISS off the ground, administrator Dan Goldin would no doubt love to stick Glenn in permanent orbit...
Pssst! Want to buy some time in space? In a desperate effort to keep its cash-starved half of the International Space Station (ISS) afloat, the Russian Space Agency has offered to sell its counterparts at NASA the only thing it has left: allocation of astronauts. For a mere $60 million, NASA chief Daniel Goldin told members of Congress in a letter printed in the New York Times Monday, America will get "up to 100 percent of the research time previously allocated to Russia" -- and Moscow's space program effectively becomes a subsidiary of Washington...
...That will please the Clinton administration, which sees the ISS as a billion-dollar boondoggle designed to keep Russian scientists in employment and out of other nations' nuclear weapons programs. Capitol Hill, however, is more skeptical. "It's smoke and mirrors," said Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.) of the House Science Committee. "What NASA has done is to propose a leveraged buyout of the Russian Space Agency." Wednesday's Science Committee meeting on the subject is likely to be ugly; Goldin would do well to offer free gifts and a money-back guarantee...