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Time for orbiting lab to find true purpose

    Nature volume 412, page 463 (2001)Cite this article

    The International Space Station's current plight provides another chance to subject its research portfolio to rigorous review.

    Watching the apparent ease with which NASA astronauts have been assembling the International Space Station in orbit, one would scarcely suspect the chaos the programme is experiencing down on Earth. NASA is requesting up to an additional $5 billion over the next five years. The US Congress, furious with the space agency's failure to control the project's costs, seems unlikely to oblige. If so, science stands to be the loser, with lab facilities and astronaut-hours for research likely to be cut (see page 465).

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