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ISS Construction Resumes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the old-meets-new dept.

avtchillsboro writes "The NY Times has an article detailing new construction on the International Space Station (ISS) and the additions via coming Space Shuttle missions through 2010. From the article: 'For more than three years, the International Space Station has floated half-built above the Earth. Maintained by a skeleton crew, the station — an assemblage of modules and girders — has not come close to its stated goal of becoming a world-class research outpost. But now construction, which has hung in limbo since NASA's space shuttle fleet was grounded after the 2003 Columbia disaster, is scheduled to resume. The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off next Sunday carrying a bus-size segment of the station's backbone that includes a new set of solar-power arrays.'"

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  1. Re:Cost Versus Utility by Andrzej+Sawicki · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why not send the other modules up with Russian rockets?
    Politics, obviously. It's the American president who needs the PR, not the Russian one.
  2. Let's hope not.... by woolio · · Score: 0, Troll

    To drag out a tired example, it's a modern Columbus.

    Yikes. I hope the ISS doesn't become a tool to wipe out entire nations whose way of life differs greatly from our own.