And now the ISS will be decommissioned this decade and Tiangong will be the only space station in orbit.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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The US should only be allowed to join if they abolish their space marine corps (or whatever they're called).
Doesn’t China have one too? Like identical to the US space force?
All either branch does is cyberwarfare, they aren’t really doing anything in space at all. It was mostly for PR.
... yet... they won't do much yet...
Liberals drinking their own koolaid.
You'd think someone involved in this decision making process would ask literally anyone involved with NASA: Hey, if we deorbit the ISS, and give funding to private companies, they'll build us a better space station, cheaper, right?
According to Elon Musk in 2016, Space X would have produced an unmanned Mars mission by 2018; and according to him in 2020 there should have been cargo trips in 2022
They should start a version of the Interkosmos program instead
that'd be pretty awesome
America shooting itself in the foot.
Happens all the time