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Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-05-2009 04:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
RIA Novosti: ISS partners, including Russia, agree to use orbiter outpost until 2020
Russia and its International Space Station partners have an oral agreement to continue using the orbiter outpost until 2020, the president of leading Russian spacecraft maker RSC Energia said on Thursday.

"The ISS partners have not yet signed any documents, but verbally we have already settled the initiative [to extend the station's use]," Vitaly Lopota said at a news conference in Moscow.

teopze
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posted 02-07-2009 04:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for teopze   Click Here to Email teopze     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The fact that the ISS will be used after it's original 'decommission' date was to be expected, I guess... Just few days ago I was thinking how long will they actually use it in total for science [will they ever...]. After all it was a lot of money and effort [and lives...] and a kind of disappointment in a sense [at least to me, although I'm a huge fan of ISS/STS].

Do you think they will extend the use of ISS after 2020? Perhaps till 2025+ etc? Is it technically possible? Or would it be so economically ridiculous just as the STS occurred to be? Or would it be better to dump it in the ocean and go forward?

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