expensive space junk

expensive space junk

Jeffrey F. Bell of SpaceDaily calls the international space station - and NASA's competence - into question. He refers to the ISS as the International Space Scrap Yard, noting the multiple failures of parts that had been ostensibly designed to last for ten years after completion, failures that in some cases have occurred after only two or three years. Money shot:

"Shuttle and ISS are so fundamentally wrong in their basic concept and design that even the best engineers in the world couldn't save those programs -- and clearly the best engineers in the world no longer work for NASA."