On Friday, the construction of the ISS / ISS was officially completed

In other words, on Friday, the astronauts completed the last scheduled work at the International Space Station, attaching the last module (something like a laser-equipped crane) to the station for a robotic manipulator. Thus, after 13 years and 35-100 billion dollars (the exact amount is unknown), the orbital space station is fully ready. It worked before, we all know, but the work performed by astronauts last Friday is the final stage to complete the construction of the ISS. True, in 2012, the Russian module "Science" can be (and most likely will be) attached to the ISS. Under the cut there is still a bit of boring text and some non- boring photos , though not very “heavy”, but still keep in mind.

This will be the last major update of the station, but already unplanned. By the way, during the work another record was broken - about 1000 hours of work in outer space.

It may well be that in the near future it will be announced about the possibility of connecting to the station various modules of third-party organizations (including those involved in space tourism). In general, there is room for design thought, there would be only money to carry out all our plans. By the way, NASA has recently resumed work on the creation of a spacecraft, which is fully able to fly to the Moon and Mars, having landed a new generation of researchers. Previously, work in this direction were curtailed, because the United States officially curtailed the lunar program. The resumption of work may indicate the intention of this country to unfreeze the program.
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Well, let's hope that the ISS will be able to work a lot more time (by the way, who knows how much time designers have allocated for the operation of this station?).













Via yahoo