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Nature 391, 732-736 (19 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35712
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Science struggles to gain respect on the space station
Abstract
Although much has been made of the value of the international space station to science, many researchers remain deeply sceptical. But useful science may still emerge, even though various obstacles remain to be overcome.
In May 1994, Daniel Goldin, head of the US space agency NASA, invited physicist Samuel Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to brief him on an idea Goldin had heard about. Ting, it seemed, wanted to put a daring and original — if controversial — experiment on the space station that NASA and its international partners plan to launch into Earth orbit.
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