Next ISS Assembly Mission Most Complicated Yet

Credit: NASA
NASA managers like to describe the upcoming 12a.1 International Space Station assembly mission as rewiring your house while you live in it. But this abode has far more moving parts, all flying about 17,000 mph., 250 mi. high. Before the space shuttle Discovery departs from its scheduled STS-116...

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