Oh I love the ISS. That's at least a step in the right direction but it sucks to know that it's only temporary and that it'll be finished very soon.
I love the idea of the ISS... Particularly the global aspect. But the money and resources sunk into something they plan to crash in the next decade? It wasn't enough money to set up a lunar colony, but as rare as space exploration $$ are... Could have done so, so, so much more. Particularly unmanned probes. We could have had balloons on Titan, landers on Europa, Enceladus, Io, Ganymede. Mars sample return, Phobos lander. So, so very much science delayed for a two decade long station.
