International Space Station

Good graphics but the white elephant tag is well founded.  Von Braun envisioned a space station as a means to an end.  A way station from which to construct larger vehicles to explore the solar system.  It was never meant to be a destination in itself.  If we had kept the Saturn V in production just think of where we could be today.  Political short sightedness gets us again and again.

no offense to supporters of the iss, but i think it's a real white elephant (useless). i've heard that it'll be obsolete before they finish building it. it's also a real drain on NASA's budget. they should have at least made it like stanley kubrick's 2001 station (rotational for artificial gravity).

As for the animation, it's quite good yardbird.