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    • Send the ISS To the Moon

      Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

      Michael Benson is proposing that NASA send the ISS to the moon instead of leaving it in low earth orbit. (While we're at it, we should re-brand it as the 'International Space Ship.') He points out that it's already designed to be moved periodically to higher orbits so instead of just boosting it a few miles, strap on some ion engines and put it in orbit around the moon instead of the earth. That would provide an initial base for the astronauts going to the moon and give the ISS a purpose other than performing yet more studies on the effect of micro gravity on humans. Benson concludes: 'Let's begin the process of turning the ISS from an Earth-orbiting caterpillar into an interplanetary butterfly.

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    • ISS supports News Corp reform

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Global proxy voting firm ISS has thrown its weight behind its a proposal to go before the News Corp annual meeting which seeks to scrap the gerrymander voting that deprives most News Corp shareholders of voting rights. Might make the meeting interesting.

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      Space station set for massive expansion

      Posted by Billbar from New Scientist Space

      With the space shuttle Atlantis scheduled to launch on Sunday, construction of the unfinished International Space Station (ISS) is set to pick up again after a 3.5-year hiatus. The agency expects to increase the ISS crew from three to six people by 2009. Before that, they will need more living space and an extra bathroom and kitchen. The ISS will eventually have the volume of a five-bedroom house. The components are set to be launched on at least 15 – and possibly 17 – shuttle flights. Another shuttle mission might be sent to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

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      Space Adventures Offers $15 Million Spacewalks for ISS Visitors

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      It may be the pinnacle of travel perks, but the only firm arranging private trips to the International Space Station (ISS) is now offering a bonus spacewalk for clients willing to pay for more than a standard $20 million trip. The Vienna, Virginia-based firm Space Adventures announced Friday that future paying visitors the space station can take a 90-minute spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA) and extend their orbital trip by up to eight days for an added cost of about $15 million.

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      Discovery leaves space station

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      Shuttle Discovery departed from the International Space Station on Saturday to end a nine-day visit that included three spacewalks and a repair critical to resuming construction of the half-finished space outpost.

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      NASA Partners Set Space Station Construction Plan

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      “We are largely deferring utilization and we are paring logistics to the bone,” Griffin said during a press conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. “We don’t like that. But confronted with a choice between having a high confidence to complete the assembly of the station…or utilizing it heavily as we built it and possibly not finishing, we chose the former course.”

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