Funding concerns jeopardize space station as it's poised to do cutting-edge research

November 20th, 2008 By Robert Block and Mark K. Matthews

Right now, as you are reading this, 10 Russian and American men and women orbiting 200 miles above your head are busy installing toilets, refrigerators and new bedrooms aboard the most complicated construction project ever undertaken: the international space station.


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