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With this logic, I assume you'd call the ISS a useless project.
by xcambar 4y ago
With this logic, I assume you'd call the ISS a useless project.
- inglor_cz 4y agoNot the OP, but this is a good example. ISS wasn't useless, but its successor should be much cheaper. We absolutely need to find ways how to do space research more efficiently, otherwise it will stay a luxury of the richest nations. Fortunately, at the very least, launch costs to orbit are dropping and we may hope for further drops in the future - if Starship works as intended.
- concordDance 4y agoIn all seriousness, what use is it? How has it improved people's lives?
- ncmncm 4y agoIt is, really. At one time, it was the only place the shuttle could get to; and the shuttle was the only thing that could get people to it. Literally the only thing they can do at ISS, not better done with robots, is study how human bodies are affected by exposure to high radiation and long-term weightlessness. Which we care about only because people would be so exposed in ISS-like cans. Now they are pushing the "lunar gateway", that likewise has exactly one reason to exist: SLS could get there. And, it will be a place for SLS to get to. And, even more useless. A thing in high orbit around the moon is absolutely useless for any other purpose, whether you are heading for the moon or beyond it.
- dehrmann 4y agoWould you rather have 1 ISS or 200 New Horizons?