The international space station is expected to be fully completed later this year. It's final cost is estimated to run around $100 billion. Plans are already afoot for the station to be "de-orbited" -- i.e. crashed -- in 2016.
Money well spent?
Money well spent?
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That really depends on the fruits from the science conducted on the ISS. You can see a summary of experiments conducted by week, here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/Summary.html
The impace of the research conducted on the ISS won't likely be known for years. This guy thinks Apollo was worth it: http://www.astrosociology.com/Library/PDF/Impacts_Sadeh.pdf
These folks don't:
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/09030501/pdf/5-4_E_Sornette_Paper5_o.pdf
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