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Article: At Kennedy Space Center, visitors watch as space station is built.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 2, 1998
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ The Kennedy Space Center's newest attraction is so clever it's a wonder someone didn't come up with the idea years ago.
It's a journey along the assembly line where real engineers and technicians are building the real International Space Station _ the orbiting platform for the next generation of space exploration.
And we, like medical students perched in the observation gallery of an operating room in some great teaching hospital, can peer down into the cavernous body and watch the doctors do their magic.
Like the student doctors, we are insulated from the high-tech, sterile environment below by a thick plexiglass ...