Saving the International Space Station is Not Worth It
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6PDES)
People have proposed saving the International Space Station. They think it cost about $200 billion to build it. However, most of those costs were the $1-2 billion spent for each Space shuttle launch. Those are sunk costs. It now costs an additional $1.3 billion per year to keep the Space Station operating. The parts were ...