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Briefing

Nature 391, 734 (19 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35719

Bartering for experimental time and space has already begun

The space station is proving to be a challenging experiment in international collaboration as well as being a hugely complex engineering job. "In effect, an international space agency has been created for the station," says John Logsdon, a space policy analyst at George Washington University in Washington.