Re: ISS Truss system
I appreciate that the truss is complex, with lots of fancy power and data infrastructure, but so is a major skyscraper, and most of the skyscrapers are cheaper and a bit bigger.
Face it, the Space Station costs one heck of a lot more than it would really have to to get the job done. A lot of this is NASA, a lot of it is scientists and contractors who get paid a lot more for exotic solutions than simple ones, and a lot is politics that NASA can't avoid. But the result is the same.