Showing posts with label international space station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international space station. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2011
NASA DECLARES INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION COMPLETE
With the sucessful return of the Discovery spaceshuttle, NASA has declared the International Space Station (ISS) to be complete. Discovery delivered the final module for the ISS.
While there are still some additional components to be added, the new room dubbed the "Permanent Multipurpose Module" is NASA's final contribution to the actual assembly of the station and, according to the agency, it means that it has "essentially completed" all that it had planned. The two remaining shuttle missions will just be carrying supplies and spare parts, along with a little $1.5 billion experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will be used to search for fun stuff like antimatter galaxies and dark matter.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF CONTINUOUS HABITATION
Ten years ago today the first crew boarded the International Space Station. Since then the Space Station has had humans occupying its space. This ten year anniversary also marks the half way point of the ISC's expected lifetime, however it is not ready to de-orbit anytime soon. Even though its role has been expanded and revamped along way, and it has suffered a few bumps and glitches, the ISC is expected to have it's life extended past the originally planned 20 years. [Engadget]
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