re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

also, ROI doesn’t always require a literal financial profit

It isn’t about financial benefit, it is opportunity cost. It is a what if question so we can never really know, but if you had just given the money to NASA and let them decide how to spend it I don’t think the ISS is what would have won. The ISS was a diplomatic/political thing as much as a scientific endeavor.