Shuttle Lifts Crucial Lab to Space Station
From Times Wire Reports
Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off with the most expensive and pivotal piece of the international space station: a $1.4-billion laboratory.
The future of space station Alpha is riding on the 11-day mission. NASA’s Destiny laboratory is the first of at least three research modules planned for the station. If the lab is damaged or destroyed in flight, the space station will be set back by years.
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