Does it matter what happens to the ISS?
Is there any science done on the ISS that's actually cited?
The answer to both questions is no.
Is there any science done on the ISS that's actually cited?
The answer to both questions is no.
This amounts to a bit more than one peer-reviewed publication for every four days since the first ISS segment launched in 1998. (2157 publications total through March 2019)
More than 170 of those papers have been published in the top 100 journals in the clarivate analytics ranking. (Independent ranking used by a large number of universities)
Their top paper has been cited 582 times. (Context: For many top journals, average number of times a paper has been cited is ~5).
Depends on your meaning of "we". As of June 17, 2021, the Chinese space station Tiangong, is manned. Chinese manned missions to Mars in 2030 have long been announced and may even be completed earlier than anticipated.
Total nonsense. They wont even make it to the moon by then.
Their Long March 9 rocket need for Mars will barley even fly before 2030, let alone will they make a Mars mission with it.
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I will put my email in my profile for a little bit.
And yes, I wish there were a way you could opt out of paying for manned spaceflight via your taxes, because that would mean that I could opt out of paying for things that I don't want to pay for.
But it doesn't work that way. Deal with it.
If you add "ISS" and restrict to the 21st century, what do you find? I don't see anything with triple-digit citation numbers, or for that matter anything that looks like generally applicable research at all.
I do see "ISS plasma interaction: Measurements and modeling", cited by 15.
There is probably a better way to look for research than only at nasa.gov, but since you provided the link I was going with that.
"First result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: precision measurement of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays of 0.5–350 GeV"
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=alph...
It's pretty easy using Google to find some of the research that people have thought was notable: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/five-things-the-iss-has-d... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03085-8