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Article: A place in space: crews restart construction on the International Space Station.(INFO ZONE)
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- WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2006
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Mission accomplished! On September 21, Astronauts returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Atlantis from a successful journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The six-person crew installed new solar panels on the giant space lab 220 miles above Earth. This was the first delivery of a major component since 2002.
Once completed, the space station will be about the size of a five-bedroom house, measuring 361 feet end to end. The research lab orbits Earth at a rate of 5 miles per second. A coalition of 16 countries, including the United States, is building the space station.
Construction began in 1998, and the first crew arrived in 2000. This ...