NASA Upgrading Space Station To Boost Research
By Frank Morring, Jr. . Source: Aerospace Daily & Defense Report .
DENVER — NASA has plans to upgrade the International Space Station (ISS) in the months ahead to make it more efficient as a research laboratory. With assembly of the U.S. portion of the lab completed and the U.S.-side crew working to its planned average capacity of 35 hr. a week collectively spent on research, efforts are under way to improve communications links that scientists on the ground can use to help astronauts run their experiments ...
