Don’t Scale Back Space Station, Report Says
If the international space station is to fulfill its role as an orbiting laboratory, NASA will need to give crew members more time for research, add equipment and send up additional resupply flights, scientists said in a report.
The scientists, assembled by NASA to recommend research priorities for the space station, said a scaled-back, modified version of the orbiting laboratory would not be able to accomplish many science objectives once envisioned for the laboratory.
The scaled-back version would be limited to three crew members and would exclude some science equipment originally visualized for the space lab.
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