Iss soon be abandoned, thanks to our "great" leadership!!!

Kraft & others said don't trash shuttle until a REPLACEMENT is operational!! Thanks to our " potus" !!!!!!!

ISS may soon be history--- in trash heap!

NASA NEWS
Bolden: NASA Needs Russia For Launches To The ISS, But Is Preparing For 2024 Departure.
The Houston Chronicle (3/4, Berger, 2.28M) reports that on Wednesday, in a US House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden made the "frank admission" that if Russia stopped bringing astronauts to the ISS, there was currently "no back-up plan to fly the International Space Station." Bolden said, "We would make an orderly evacuation." According to the article, this statement was part of "a tense 10-minute showdown with the space and science subcommittee's new chairman, John Culberson." Bolden "finally" said after being "pressed" to answer what would happen, "You are forcing me into this answer, and I like to give you real answers,. ... I don't want to try and BS anybody."
Space News (3/4, Leone, Subscription Publication, 481) notes that Bolden did state that NASA is planning what to do if Russia took away the ISS' Zvezda propulsion module in 2024 as it is now proposing, although he did not say what those plans were. Like the Houston Chronicle, Space News said the statement came during "a sometimes-tense exchange" with Culberson. Still, Bolden said that NASA still has a "strong" relationship with Roscosmos, noting, "While our political and diplomatic relations are not very good … the indications are that the rhetoric on the political side is not the same as when you talk about space exploration." Meanwhile, even though Culberson blamed the Obama Administration for the current reliance on Russia for sending astronauts to the ISS, Bolden explained, "Had we gotten the funding that was first requested when I became the NASA administrator [in 2009], we would have been all joyously going to the Kennedy Space Center later this year to watch the first launch of some commercial spacecraft with our crew members on it." Furthermore, according to the article, Bolden told the congressmen that if NASA is given more money for the SLS and Orion programs, they would not fly sooner because "we have a program in place that calls for them to fly at a particular date and we're not going to change that appreciably with more money. ... If you gave me more money … I would buy down risk. ... When you go to SpaceX and look on their floor, there are engines all over the place. There are engines for flights they don't have yet. That's the way they buy down risk. That's the way industry does it. You put assets in place so that you can carry out a program years in advance. That's what I would do."
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