US to leave the International Space Station?

I think it'll be interesting times for NASA around 2015. The article below highlights the debates about how long to be a part of the international space station.

via NASA SpaceFlight.com on 5/16/08

NASA managers have been meeting today to debate the option of removing the US presence from the International Space Station (ISS) when Discovery undocks at the latter part of STS-124. Meanwhile, STS-124 processing continues to pick up the pace, following the recent replacement of a faulty MDM (Multiplexer/Demultiplexer) card (FA2), and a Russian re-supply ship (Progress 29P) has successfully docked with the ISS.

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