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Published online 30 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050926-2
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Bring on the money
Selling space trips and adverts may be the brightest way to keep the space station afloat, suggests Mark Peplow.
The International Space Station (ISS) has a major image problem. By this time last year it had cost more than $75 billion; it is still only half finished, and is widely thought to be a white elephant.
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