Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
With the vast majority of the cost being covered by the United States, crewed mostly by US astronauts (we have had more crew on the ISS than nearly all other nations combined. The only other country that even comes close is Russia), and we're the ones who banned China from participation.

Yes, it is an international venture, but if someone wants to have a measuring contest its not out of hand to claim that as one of our accomplishments.
At least currently those astronauts get placed there by Russian spacescrafts from a Russian base(the US despecrated their human space program after the space race.)