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According to the presidential panel committee that has just recently finished looking into the activities under development at NASA, extending the lifespan of the International Space Station (ISS) beyond 2015 is key to reaching Mars. The experts, who said that they themselves were surprised by the find, highlight the similarities between a six-month stay on the ISS and a six-month, one-way trip to Mars, in terms of how microgravity affects the human body, Reuters reports. At this point, the orbital station is scheduled to be dismantled in 2015. However, over the past few years, more and more voices started supporting the idea of keeping the 16-nation, $100-billion project in place until 2020, or maybe even 2025. The presidential panel seems to agree with this conclusion, saying that the scientific value of the ISS is too great to simply dismantle it only five years after its scheduled completion. Work has been progressing on the facility for the last decade, with missions!
ferrying equipment, new modules and solar arrays to orbit several times per year. The panel also revealed that the $18-billion budget that NASA was alloted at the moment fell about $3 billion per year short of completing Project Constellation on time. This is disastrous, considering that, after the shuttles are retired at the end of...
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