ISS leaking air

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Al Globus wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2004, at 8:21 PM, George Perkins wrote:
>
> > It's really depressing all the anti-NASA baloney I read on the net
> > knowing the value derived from NASA research far exceeds the costs
> > involved.
> >
> > NASA is making and saving money for all of us. The research has
> > benefitted medicine for example

Okay, maybe I misworded myself. I wanted to say that it is behind
schedule and costing billions of dollars, and there seem like there
is not idea on what role it should play. Kind of like NASA itself,
simply because the two are tied together.

I don't know. Maybe if NASA makes the ISS the forefront of
humanfight, and get some more cash, it could do wonders.

> It's important to remember that NASA launched the first
>communication
> satellites, the first Earth resources satellites, and (I think)
>the
> first weather satellites. Comm sats, at least, are a quietly
> profitable business. The others are extremely valuable, although
>not
> always commercially.

I did not know that.