Taking consideration of all the time, effort, and immense amounts of money that has been poured into creating the International Space Station (ISS) discussed in Michael Benson’s Take it Somewhere Special, it is likely that the United States will take a bold step and collaborate with neighboring nations to formulate plans for more in depth space exploration. Although Benson states in his article that the ISS is currently going nowhere fast, new political administration may be the push that the nation needs in order to attempt more space discovery within the space station. One of the less discussed, but more important problems presented with the ISS’s lack of exploration is the problem that NASA, especially under the administration of George Bush, is not welcoming to new ideas and input from other countries. But with so many billions already having been poured into this project and a more welcoming political administration in charge, NASA may be more likely to collaborate with other nations and begin a “truly international endeavor, with expenses shared among all participating nations”, as the text states. The next direct step, however, will more than likely be working on formulating plans to explore. What Benson discusses throughout his entire article is how the ISS has been built and created for all of this discovery, but nothing has actually been done yet. Over the years, nations all over have tested space crafts and found that they have been successful. The ISS has the equipment to send space crafts into space and back safely, the only delay right now seems to be a lack of planning for ideas to actually explore.
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