--- Kim Hyatt <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
Just a thought here: I keep hearing things such as, "We can do this to get to the ISS, we can do that for the ISS..." Does anyone know what the ISS itself does or is supposed to do? That is, besides keeping astronauts in orbit? What purpose does the damn thing serve? <snip>
Mission 10 Science Fact Sheets http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/factchron.html Missions 2-9 Science Fact Sheets http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/factchron2.html Mission 11 Press Kit including Science Fact Sheet http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/112555main_exp11_presskit.pdf (5.2 megs) - Canopus56 ISS Main Page http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html NASA Spins-Offs 2004 edition (Search for "space station") http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/103475main_spinoff_04.pdf (10 megabytes) Note the shuttle tanks are fabricated outside New Orleans. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/sep/HQ_05262_katrina_update_091305.html Aurora from the space station - http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/photos/blueauroras_m.jpg __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com