Zvezda Ready to Launch

dlgree1 writes "Nasa has anounced here that the Zvezda Service Module is ready to launch tomarrow on a modified proton rocket. The Zvezda Service Module is the ISS's life support and early living quarters aboard. Zvezda should dock with the ISS on July 26 at 00:44 GMT. Nasa has set the launch of the first ISS crew for October 30, 2000 which will begin the perminant habbitation of the space station."