Fully staffed space station finally ready to get down to work
With a full complement of six astronauts on board, the $100 billion International Space Station is ready to begin delivering on its promise of great scientific discoveries. "We've been building the international space station for 10 years now, and we've finally gotten to a point now where it has some incredible laboratory facilities and six people on board the station to do some science," said Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk before blasting off Wednesday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Most crew time until now has been devoted to merely maintaining the station, leaving just 20 hours a week for scientific experiments in a zero-gravity environment. With the crew size doubled, however, that figure should more than triple to 70 hours.
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