January/February 2010
The Future of Human Spaceflight
Are astronauts close to extinction?
By Jeff Foust
The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most complex and expensive engineering projects ever undertaken. When it is completed in 2011, it will have cost nearly $100 billion. And then, just five years later, the space station will be destroyed when NASA deliberately takes it out of orbit and plunges it into Earth's atmosphere.
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