Comments on: The importance of citing (and vetting) your sources http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Sam Dinkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/#comment-30683 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:27:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/#comment-30683 Here I was thinking that my recommendation to auction the space station was influential. Well, if it’s not policy, it’s at least as the butt of a joke, and now of media criticism. The current strategy is not much different than selling it–it’s deorbiting it without selling it.

]]> By: Charles in Houston http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/#comment-30666 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:16:34 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/#comment-30666 Fellow Space Station Watchers –

As Jeff said:

“The irony of all this is that, in the long run, NASA might well turn over the ISS to its international partners, depending on how the Vision for Space Exploration and the agency’s finances unfold in the years to come. Selling it on eBay, though, still seems a little unlikely…”

How would “turning over the Space Station” work, since the main control center is here in Houston with all the trained controllers and supporting engineering and contracts and …?? Would someone else (perhaps ESA, perhaps a consortium of universities) buy the control center and hire the engineers needed to run the Space Station? Would they contract for spares and training and all that you would need to keep the Station working? A space station is not like a car where you can buy it and drive it off of the lot. Then buy a new battery at an auto parts store.

What (if anything) was The President thinking when he suggested giving the Space Station away? He certainly had no vague idea of the depth of support needed to keep it working, and the years of training needed to support a space station.

Certainly we could decide to turn over the Space Station – but it would take many years. Even if you decided to abandon the depth of expertise from the controllers at the Marshall space center in Huntsville, and the knowledge of the engineers at the Kennedy space center that integrated the Station.

Charles

]]> By: Chance http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/#comment-30653 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:57:15 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/12/16/the-importance-of-citing-and-vetting-your-sources/#comment-30653 They wouldn’t get more that 500 bucks for it anyhow. Better to donate the ISS to charity for the tax write-off.

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