From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 19:58:55 MDT
> Chuck Kuecker wrote: ...It took an enormous amount of energy
> to get it all up there - how much more would it take to preserve it for
> either
> future use or as a monument to the history of space exploration?
A great deal, unfortunately. Otherwise they probably would have opted to
do just that.
> It looks to me like the powers that be would rather enjoy a fireworks
> disply costing billions than spend a few thousand to preserve.
Well, it would be a few hundred million to boost it all to a really
long lived orbit. Also, it would be fairly useless as a space station
because it would end up in the Van Allen belts (high radiation.)
{8-[ spike
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