Our Island in the Sky (ACC) – Thunderbird 5

Plenty of zero-G experimenting going on there, helping a variety of earthbound disciplines besides astronomy.

They should tack on a hotel module, to take some budget off NASA’s hands to plug into, eg. Europa, which interests me much more deeply than Mars.

ISS is also an international cooperation, so politics are inevitable. I’d prefer to see a brotherhood and sisterhood of space-capable nations, with tourism and science working hand in hand.

Space station and moonbase are the infrastructure for tourism and science to the outer solar system. Mars is but the first step. Unfortunately it’ll be pretty boring, with only weird shaped rocks for company.

I know what you mean about the lawyer’s statement, he’s being as sensational as the news outlets are. I just hope it doesn’t come to hurt Lisa’s case. She needs fairness more than anything right now (well, and some attempt to understand her).

Just a correction– I never worked for NASA. I was a contractor years ago, and had NASA grants until last month. But I was never an actual employee.

The reason I didn’t post much is because it smacked too much of idle gossip and prurient silliness. She had a breakdown, and it’s sad, and while it was news about NASA, it didn’t seem right to add to the newscasters’ collective orgasm over this kind of thing.

However, now, two months later, her lawyer comes out with a statement about the diaper? We’ll see how this plays out, but doing something like that is simply asking for trouble by the media.

SkyKing