ISS Assembly Restarts With Upcoming Shuttle Mission

Credit: CARLETON BAILIE/AW&ST
International Space Station assembly is set to resume as early as Aug. 27 with the space shuttle Atlantis lifting the heaviest piece of structure yet flown to the orbiting facility. A six-member crew is primed to deliver the P3/P4 integrated truss segment--a 45-ft. amalgam of power, cooling and...

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