Re: NASA and ISS
Hello Marcia,
I've read that NASA is going to go through budget cuts in such a way that it will not be before 7 years that ISS can be permanently manned by 7 astronauts; Columbus and JEM will have to become hangar queens for a looong time:-( (now with the war , the recession and the airplane companies loosing thousands of jobs....).
A propos, ISS now exceeds 140 Tons!!! It could very well have exceeded Mir in mass.
Raoul