ISS

The International Space Station has been one of the few space ventures sill in existence. When it was first invisioned in 1980, the number of flights has been downsized from 28 to a mere 18 for completion due to rising costs. It is estimated that its development, including assembly and operation could exceed $100 billion. The expected completion date is tentatively 2010, but this is a flexible schedule due to funding and weather. With all this money wandering around the NASA organization, it's pretty easy to beleive that some of it could get 'misplaced'. Actually, $1.1 billion got misplaced as found by independent auditors. This figure was scaled down to a pocket change amount of $46 million. It was stated in the article that NASA's good at overcoming barriers of space, but is unable to overcome the challenges of good record-keeping. With the five year anniversary of the ISS, should the participating countries continue with the space station, or is it merely a floating block of wasted money?