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>>10732668
I mean Shuttle-Mir was basically:
>"Let's support the Russian space industry so they don't collapse and steal all their knowledge about running space stations while we do so."
And ISS was:
>"You've got a space station you can't afford to build? We've got a space station we can't afford to build too!"
>"What if we just mash them together so neither of us has to pay for everything?"
>"...That might actually work."
I mean, seriously, look up the designs of Space Station Freedom and Mir-2. The ISS really is just what each country could actually afford spliced together, not exaggerating.