Recent content by Shocon

I agree completely that we should spend more on issues such as climate control, hunger, medicare and other humanitarian concerns, but the reality is that we will forever more be going out into space to learn and explore. It's in our nature and probably necessary for the long-term survival of...

That would be true if the ISS was manned, but the reducing cost of resupply missions might offset that problem. It wouldn't be an issue for a giant unmanned space probe, especially if it had a solar. nuclear or ion propulsion system. Maybe just sell/give it to Musk - he could probably come up...

All the discussion seems to be about how to plan the fiery descent of the ISS to Earth. Since the ISS seems to have possibilities for a fairly long lifetime I wonder if consideration should be given to accelerating the ISS out of Earth orbit an into a new mission - lunar orbit -Mars orbit -...