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...there's anything more powerful than one good idea it's two bad ones. In the long and often glittery history of American space exploration, far and away the two worst ideas have been the International Space Station (ISS) and the snakebit fleet of space shuttles. For more than a generation, these two ill-considered programs have been money pits for NASA, gobbling funds and returning nowhere near enough in return. Yesterday, they took another big bite out of the space agency, when officials announced $3 billion worth of NASA budget cuts over the next five years, all of them...
...pretends manned space travel isn't frightfully expensive. But the ISS and shuttles have taken profligacy to places it never went before. When President Reagan first proposed the station 22 years ago, it was budgeted at just $8 billion and was supposed to have been up and running before the 1980s were out. Currently, the outpost is still incomplete, it has returned not a lick of real science and is projected to cost up to $100 billion. The shuttles, which were advertised as a cheap, fast, reliable way to get to and from near-Earth orbit, cost $400 million every...
...Tokyo, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa and his team were recently putting the finishing touches on Japan's next small step. In a gigantic clean room the size of a warehouse, Hasegawa oversees the assembly of the $3.25 billion Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), Japan's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS). After the module tubes are finished, launched aboard a space-shuttle flight sometime in 2007, assembled and attached to the ISS, three Japanese astronauts will live in the JEM for three to six months at a time. "This is an essential opportunity for us to develop new technology for manned space...
...completely new rocket class unlikely any time soon, Japanese engineers are examining ways to refit the H-2A, originally designed primarily to carry satellites into orbit, for human flight. That's why a current project to turn an H-2A capsule into a cargo ferry bringing supplies to the ISS and returning a payload of garbage to Earth has become a particularly important dry run?a demonstration of the feasibility of using the H-2A system to transport humans into space and to get them home safely...
Harvard did win some battles in the proxy war. ISS recommended that its clients vote in favor of the University’s proposals...