Thursday, November 25, 2010

Space Laboratory Open For Business

Hello. This is my fifth post or finally the last for my ICT's task Now, i want to tell you about Space laboratory.

After nearly 12 years of development at a price of $100 billion, the International Space Station (ISS) is fully assembled, and the White House has agreed to keep the station operating until 2020 instead of 2016, as originally planned. 

The space station has two main functions: it serves as a national laboratory for scientific research and a test bed for new technologies. 

It is funded by the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Canada, and Japan, but a total of 59 nations have participated in or utilized research on the station.

The entire space station itself serves as a test bed for life-support systems like power generation and recycling oxygen and water. 

Such technologies must be perfected if the Obama administration's space goals are to be fulfilled: sending humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars by the mid-2030s. 

NASA is authorized to spend $58.4 billion over the next three years to execute the administration's plan, although the release of the money is dependent on a yet-to-be-passed appropriations bill.

Ok. this is absolutely cool. and thanks you for all of your attention :D :D

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