“Depressing. The Americans frittered away their money on the white elephant known as the ISS, killed the Shuttle program, and now have to go begging to the Russians to launch their people TO the white elephant while what’s left of NASA hooks its wagon to the global warming gravy train to save what jobs they can. How did it get to this?”
The Shuttle was old and expensive and needed to be retired, although it should not have been retired until a replacement was made.
I agree the ISS has been a waste of money.
The Russian space program has been mostly financed by American dollars, including their participation in the ISS. America did not got “begging” for rides. That’s just silly.
NASA is doing just fine driving new companies into soace, leading with new technologies and greatly reducing costs. In the end though, if you are not American it isn’t your place to criticize what we do with our space program.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.