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4519379 No.4519379 [Reply] [Original]

What's the point of this thing?

>> No.4519393

To give a false impression of humanity's enlightenment and ascension via the global zionist military industrial complex

>> No.4519422
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see pic

>> No.4519445

>>4519393
fucking retard detected

in any case
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/12/the-primary-pur.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Purpose
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2091318,00.html
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/07/russia-has-deci.html

long story short humanity needs to get its shit together before being serious about space exploration and solar system exploitation.

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Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers training for ATV-3 docking with the ISS

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 24/03/2012.

Conjunction Update:
Early this morning, the six-member crew took precautionary shelter in their respective Soyuz vehicles, about 30 min before TCA (Time of Closest Approach) of a small piece of Russian Cosmos 2251 satellite debris which passed by the ISS at 6:38:33 AM GMT.

[At TCA, the debris was moving from left to right in front of the station at an estimated overall miss distance of between 11 & 14 km and a radial miss distance of 120 m. The piece of debris was a remnant of a 2/10/2009 collision between the dormant Cosmos 2251 satellite and an operational Iridium 33 communications satellite. The collision added about 2,000 trackable items to the orbital debris catalog. CDR Dan Burbank, FE-1 Anton Shkaplerov & FE-2 Anatoly Ivanishin sheltered in the Soyuz TMA-22/28S spacecraft attached to the MRM-2 "Poisk" module while FE-4 Oleg Kononenko, FE-5 Andre Kuipers and FE-6 Don Pettit took to the Soyuz TMA-03M/29S on MRM-1 "Rassvet". The debris initially was tracked Friday morning, but the late notification to the flight control team of a possible conjunction between the debris and the station precluded planning for a DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver). This is the third time that a crew had to seek shelter in the Soyuz vehicles; the other times were 3/12/2009 and 6/28/2011.]

Which means that when the cluster arrives it will be gone.

>> No.4519455

>>4519445
So it's.. sitting there at least

>> No.4519473

We needed a mission for the Space Shuttle, or else all the money we spent on it would have been wasted. The science done by the ISS could have been done more cheaply with a single-launch station ala Skylab.

>> No.4519483

>>4519445
Why. You want to see distant, shining rocks closer?

Theoretically, we have everything we need here.

>> No.4521064

>>4519393
uber fag detected.
youre so smart. bathe us in your intellect.

dickhead

>> No.4521208

>>4519379
> What's the point of this thing?
SEE
>>4519393
> To give a false impression of humanity's enlightenment and ascension via the global zionist military industrial complex

The station's purpose is to make the military-industrialists rich rich rich. It is NOT there to expand the Human presence in space. If it was there to do that, they'd keep it up there for good; but it's scheduled to re-enter just like Skylab and Mir did. Wasting hardware at $10000/lb launch cost is your BIG RED FLAG indicating it's just a scam, cheating you out of your money.

Only violent simians could come up with such a thing and such a plan. We waste and destroy.

>> No.4521223

Japan's made solar sails.

>> No.4521226

>>4521208
It costs billions per year to keep it flying. It will be deorbited when there's no point in using it anymore, because "keeping it up there for good" would cost too much.

>> No.4521239

>>4519379
To learn how to live in space. The tools and methods developed on the ISS will be used in future interplanetary missions. If not for the ISS such missions would be much riskier as they would involve unproven technologies.

Thanks to the ISS the only additional technology needed to go anywhere in the solar system is means of propulsion and a radiation shelter.

>> No.4521243

To the study of the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws.

>> No.4521269

>>4519473
There was no capability for another Skylab, the vast majority of research could have been done by unmanned vehicles.
ISS was a reason to put people in space.

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>>4519483

>Theoretically, we have everything we need here.

Realistically, we don't.

>> No.4521694

!!SCIENCE!!

>> No.4522880

It's a testbed for technologies we need to build similarly sized reusable deep space exploration vehicles. It could have been a shipyard and fuel depot but the Russians needed it in an eccentric orbit that made it useless for those purposes.

>> No.4522884

why are you so retarded OP ?

>> No.4522890

>>4519445
>long story short humanity needs to get its shit together before being serious about space exploration and solar system exploitation.
It's funny, because people kept spouting at this shit during the USA-USSR space race, only to be shut up once we landed on the Moon, and now suddenly touting it as a great "American" achievement.

>> No.4522894

To piss off the Russians.

>> No.4522934

>>4522890
>and now suddenly touting it as a great "American" achievement.

Nothing 'sudden' about it; this has been touted as a major project success since before it was launched.
It is a great achievement, Americans had a big part of it. They can call it a great American achievement. The other countries can say the same; even more so since it was a cooperative project.

I don't see how you suggest it's connected to the moon effort; that was also a great project, but it really was a different era.