Space Station Primed for New Era of Scientific Discoveries

ISS international partners are looking forward to unprecedented scientific opportunities aboard the International Space Station, or ISS. With station assembly nearing completion, the ISS Partnership is looking forward to using the station to its fullest capacity. The U.S. administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget proposal calls for continuing station operations to at least 2020, which will create new opportunities for advancing microgravity science research.

NASA senior managers from the space station programme and counterparts at Russia’s Roscosmos, the European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology met to discuss the implications of continuing station operations and utilization and recently issued a joint statement about the station’s future.

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