In the new movie “Elysium,” Earth is beyond repair, and the rich and powerful have decided to leave it behind.
“The premise is totally believable to me. I spent 28 years working on NASA’s International Space Station and retired last summer as the director of ISS at NASA Headquarters,” Mark Uhran, former director of the International Space Station Division in NASA’s Office of Human Exploration and Operations, said. “When I took a look at the Elysium space station, I thought to myself, that’s certainly achievable in this millennium.” (via Space Station Science: Could Humans Build the ‘Elysium’? | Space.com)
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 