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It's All Decked Out. Give It Somewhere to Go. - washingtonpost.com
Topic: Science 1:10 am EDT, Jul 17, 2008

Send the ISS somewhere.

The ISS, you see, is already an interplanetary spacecraft -- at least potentially. It's missing a drive system and a steerage module, but those are technicalities. Although it's ungainly in appearance, it's designed to be boosted periodically to a higher altitude by a shuttle, a Russian Soyuz or one of the upcoming new Constellation program Orion spacecraft. It could fairly easily be retrofitted for operations beyond low-Earth orbit. In principle, we could fly it almost anywhere within the inner solar system -- to any place where it could still receive enough solar power to keep all its systems running. nullnull

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It's All Decked Out. Give It Somewhere to Go. - washingtonpost.com



 
 
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