Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Has Russia’s War Doomed The International Space Station?" video.

@ckdigitaltheqof6th210 Sorry but there's a monumental difference between what the X-15 needed for thermal protection and what anything coming back from orbit needs. I get where you are coming from but its just not the same thing. The X-15 was a ballistic vehicle NOT an orbital vehicle. There are some small sounding rockets that can lift over 100kg to 500km which is higher than the ISS but they can't put anything into orbit. To go into orbit is a matter of velocity as well as altitude. On coming down that velocity shows up as kinetic energy and its that kinetic energy that burns up satellites, meteorites, etc. Its why the Shuttle needed that tile system. Its a cute idea to bring the ISS back, but its also totally impractical.
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Go and read Arthur C Clarkes novel 2010: Odyssey Two or get the film. Its got that exact scenario. So sorry, but as a scenario it was covered 40 years ago.
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As an aerospace engineer that's totally idiotic. For starters like most aircraft the maximum take-off weight and maximum landing weight of the Space Shuttle were quite different. The maximum landing weight is 14 tons of payload. So take the current ~200 tons and divide by 14 then multiply by $300million and you'll have an approximate cost for your museum piece. Because that's about what each Space Shuttle flight cost and why the Space Shuttle was actually a horrendous failure. What would be far smarter is reusing the materials from the ISS. At just the basic cost of $10,000 per kg to space those 200 tons are worth about $2,000,000,000 (200t x 1,000kg/t x $10,000). if you then accept the reality that most stuff to space actually costs between $40,000 and $60,000 per kg then $2 Billion is low balling the value. And yes there are people (not that many) who are screaming as loud as possible to NOT just dump the ISS, but salvage or recycle as much of it as is practical. Going against that are the big space contractors who are eyeballing those juicy NASA contracts to replace it. You know those same companies that never seem to get anything done no matter how much funding NASA gives them.
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@ckdigitaltheqof6th210 Seriously don't be so damn stupid. I'm an aerospace engineer and I know what I am talking about. You can't use X-15 technology to land ISS components. Stop listening to idiots.
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@erepsekahs Dude there's the problem Elon is an egotistical clown full of imagination stuff all technical skill which has been repeatedly demonstrated. He's been insanely lucky a couple of times. First with PayPal, despite being a lousy code writer. With Tesla the car was already developed. With SpaceX he scored a group of incredibly talented people who were disgruntled with the rest of the aerospace industry. By whatever chance Elon somehow managed to get out of their road and that's why the Falcon series has been so damn successful. But Elon has shown his true nature more recently with driverless cars, hyperloop and every 1950s space cadets fantasy Starship. When it actually comes to technology development Elon Musk is a clown.
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@leyio7453 yeah but trying to reason with idiots is damn hard.
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