Comment by JumpCrisscross
5 hours ago
> it achieves nothing new and exciting
I thought this but have since changed my mind. On board, real humans tax life-support systems in a way that’s difficult to simulate. And real human astronauts garble processes and communications with ground control in ways that a nation that hasn’t done deep spaceflight in a generation could probably do with practice on.
I thought the various space stations were there to develop & test life-support systems long term?
I half agree. It is new and important.
But it's hard, at least for me personally, to get really excited about it...