Another cite: NASA wants ISS closed by 2015

dtb — 9/26/2007 10:23:28 PM (archived)

There was a thread a while back about NASA wanting to close out ISS in 2014, with several people questioning the source. Here's an AFP article that says essentially the same thing, though 2015 instead of 2014. The US seems to be saying it's well aware that its international partners are only in the next couple of years going to be launching expensive science payloads they expected to use for years, but hey, ISS is so last-Administration, so good luck paying for it all yourselves, but we are outta here....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070926/sc_afp/spaceeuropeusrussia

So, we will have worked on it for 26 years, spent 13 years on actual in-orbit assembly, then use it for a handful of years and let it burn...?

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Another cite: NASA wants ISS closed by 2015 - dtb - 9/26/2007 10:23:28 PM
- Remember MIR - Buck Galaxy - 9/28/2007 1:42:49 AM
- Pulling out does NOT mean wanting it closed (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2007 5:31:34 AM
  - From the article: ESA says they won't stay w/o NASA - dtb - 9/27/2007 8:26:40 PM
    - ESA and TDRSS - Raoul - 9/27/2007 9:02:18 PM
  - Is NASA going to offer the ISS to the private sector or international agencies? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/27/2007 6:00:56 PM
    - That won't depend on NASA but on anybody who asks (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2007 6:12:19 PM
- yes - you are outta here in 2009 (n/t) - E.P. - 9/26/2007 10:30:41 PM
  - correction: Griffin "outta here" by 2009 - E.P. - 9/26/2007 10:33:26 PM

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