Tuesday, August 29, 2006
More than a decade ago, the international space station was sold as the leading platform for space science, with familiar applications back on Earth.
But the budget for space station research has been slash considerably over the past year, and is due to is slashed even more intensely next year. Starting with Sunday's listed launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, NASA is turning its attention to flying up hardware rather than doing science.
Some observers say that NASA now sees the orbital outpost as a $100 billion white elephant to be finished, and then rapidly left behind in America's new push to the moon, Mars and beyond.
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