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Weightlessness needs more study, panel says Potential harm from longer space missions prompts new concern
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With longer space missions soon to become the norm for astronauts,
NASA needs more research to prevent the damaging effects of
weightlessness on body and mind, according to a new report.
Many scientists are particularly concerned that with construction
of the International Space Station likely to face still more delays
due to Russia's economic and political woes, there will be few
chances for orbiting biological experiments.
A committee of the National Research Council urges th...
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Revamped Space Station Project Barely Survives Vote in House
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; A redesigned space station barely got off the legislative launching pad yesterday as a bipartisan House coalition of budget cutters almost grounded the manned scientific mission. An amendment to terminate the space station program was defeated, 216 to 215, an unusually close margin in the House.
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Area Firms Seek Space Station Work; Executives Explore Subcontract Potential
The Washington Post
; When General Electric Co. official Charlie Klette stood up at a Tysons Corner conference last week and talked about subcontracting possibilities on an $895 million piece of manned space station business the company's Astro Space division has won, the dozens of technology executives in the audience
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Can 'Freedom' be maintained? (space station)
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; Can `Freedom' be maintained? THE FREEDOM space station, the cornerstone in NASA's long-range plans, might require astronomical amounts of maintenance and repair just to keep it in working order. A preliminary report on the maintenance needs for the 290-ton, 500-foot-long structure say nearly 2,300
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HOUSE OPPONENTS GEARING UP FOR FIGHT OVER SPACE STATION.(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ... space station out of its misery,'' Rep. Tim Roemer, the leader of the anti-station forces in the House, said yesterday during a news conference. With the House expected as early as today to take up the NASA spending bill, Roemer will mount his annual effort ...
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Astronauts attach space station wings
Chicago Sun-Times
; CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Two spacewalking astronauts attached the world's largest, most powerful set of solar wings to the international space station on Sunday. It was a task as monumental as the wings themselves: The future of space station construction hinged on the astronauts' ability to pull off
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