A change in thinking about ISS

>>>It looks to me like alot of people don't buy the rational for ISS. How
about that it will provide a facility on orbit to develop, test and
construct all the things this list talks about. From orbital power
facilities to all the things on Ron's list. Ultimately humans need an on
orbit platform/facitity to implement. Some thoughts...>>>

When it costs $140 million just to design and build the front door, you
know they must be doing something wrong. There's just nothing in a
spacecraft airlock that can justify that amount of money. $10 million would
have been too much. $2 million is more like it.

As for BDB's, it should be remembered that there are BDB's on the drawing
board that could have been used to launch the ISS in one piece. There would
have been no need for dozens of expensive shuttle flights or several,
expensive, individually designed airlocks, individually designed modules
with their own air recycling systems, etc. Something like a modern Sea
Dragon could have fired the thing up there, in one shot. True, you would
have to pay for the development of the Sea Dragon, but even in a worst case
scenario, we are talking several billions, not sixty. The ISS could have
been carefully assembled in a clean environment with excellent quality
control. The Sea Dragons could be built by the dozen in regular shipyards.
Each one would cost about the same amount as 1 shuttle launch, but would
have a payload capacity 25 times as large.

When all is said and done, there is nothing to justify the $60billion
price tag of ISS. $10billion would be more realistic. It is nothing more
than a NASA inspired trick, to prop up the space shuttle and US aerospace
industries.
Tony

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