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Re:NASA, Lockheed Martin Working to Resolve Artemis II Orion... by simonh on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:52AM (#39927320)
Getting rid of the ISS would leave Falcon/Dragon, and for some missions Starship nowhere to go. Like it or not, for the moment SpaceX is tied to existing NASA projects. Hopefully that will change as the economics of spaceflight rewrite the rules of what is possible and worth doing, but we're not there yet.
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Re:NASA, Lockheed Martin Working to Resolve Artemis II Orion... by MR4D on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:48PM (#39937222)
Note my wording - I said sell it not get rid of it. I think Elon ( or Bezos, or a bunch of other people ) could do something useful with it rather than sinking it into the ocean.

I tend to think of the ISS like a PC - it's infinitely upgradeable, and you replace parts as needed to upgrade them, or add on as needed. (ok, so the ISS is much more complicated, but this is HN, not a PhD dissertation).

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