ISS: Use It. Don't Lose It

摘要

Two roads diverge for the interna-rntional space station (ISS). Therneasy one leads to certain failure.rnThe other offers discomfort, risk and thernpossibility of success beyond our wildestrnimaginings.rnYou may be surprised that the choice isn't whether or not the operational life of ISS should be extended beyond 2016. But picking the right road answers that question decisively.rnWhy did the governments of 17 great nations invest so many billions of dollars and so many years in building the international space station? I went and looked at all their Web sites and found remarkable similarity expressed in dramatically different ways.