XPost: sci.space.history, uk.tech.rocketry   
   From: clj@panix.com   
      
   derekl1963@nospamyahoo.com (Derek Lyons) writes:   
      
   > Kevin Willoughby  wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article <401eb79e.3815714@supernews.seanet.com>, derekl1963   
   >>@nospamyahoo.com says...   
   >>> I always find it odd when people insist the ISS should already have   
   >>> accomplised great things.   
   >>   
   >>ISS Expedition 1 was launched over three years ago. From first to last   
   >>(manned) flights of Mercury was 2 years. Gemini: 2-1/2 years. Apollo:   
   >>just over 4 years, with the first lunar landing less than a year after   
   >>the first manned flight. So isn't is reasonable to expect *something*   
   >>from ISS?   
   >   
   > Accomplishing "something" and accomplishing "great things" are two   
   > very different expectations.   
   >   
   > Why is it reasonable to expect *anything* to have been accomplished in   
   > something that isn't even finished abuilding yet?   
      
   Isn't it?  We're not asking for the moon.  Actually, I think there is   
   science being accomplished aboard ISS, but labwork doesn't make the   
   news, and much of it is remote with an occasional human to set things   
   right if necessary (like after maybe setting things wrong?).   
      
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