US Is Abandoning Its Post On The ISS
Dec 13, 2015 10:54:29 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Dec 13, 2015 10:54:29 GMT -6
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Is it just me and my tin hat or does anyone else think there is something more going on here? I think it's more of the geopolitics in the middle east and the geopolitical problems created with Russia and the ongoing war with ISIS. I would think they will let Russia foot the bill for ISS all by themselves. There must be a payment due and coming up for the US to say it's getting out as quickly as possible. Hell the US can do anything quickly, we can't even commit to getting rid of ISIS right away being the mass murdering terrorist they are, but let's bail on ISS right away. This stinks something else is going on.
"During a meeting of NASA’s advisory council earlier this month, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William Gerstenmaier, said: "We’re going to get out of ISS as quickly as we can," Ars Technica reported.
After leaving its post on board the ISS, NASA hopes to return to a destination that NASA astronauts haven’t visited since 1972: the Moon.
It’s unclear whether astronauts will set foot on the Moon. What is clear, however, is that NASA’s looking to send manned missions in orbit around the Moon – to a region called cislunar space – by the late 2020s.
Out there, astronauts will be days, instead of hours, from Earth. They will also be well outside of Earth’s protective geomagnetic shield, that blocks most of the dangerous high-energy radiation from the sun.
For these reasons, astronauts will get a better taste – both psychologically and physiologically – for what it would be like on a trip to Mars. Long stays in cislunar space is the next step toward getting humans ready for Mars.
For NASA, the ISS (International Space Station) is an expensive endeavour. In 2015, the space agency dedicated about $3 billion, or 1/6 of its total $18 billion budget, to the ISS, alone."
After leaving its post on board the ISS, NASA hopes to return to a destination that NASA astronauts haven’t visited since 1972: the Moon.
It’s unclear whether astronauts will set foot on the Moon. What is clear, however, is that NASA’s looking to send manned missions in orbit around the Moon – to a region called cislunar space – by the late 2020s.
Out there, astronauts will be days, instead of hours, from Earth. They will also be well outside of Earth’s protective geomagnetic shield, that blocks most of the dangerous high-energy radiation from the sun.
For these reasons, astronauts will get a better taste – both psychologically and physiologically – for what it would be like on a trip to Mars. Long stays in cislunar space is the next step toward getting humans ready for Mars.
For NASA, the ISS (International Space Station) is an expensive endeavour. In 2015, the space agency dedicated about $3 billion, or 1/6 of its total $18 billion budget, to the ISS, alone."
