Japanese Space Station Unit Threatened by Space Shuttle Retirement
Credit: KAZUKI SHIIBASHI/AW&ST
The future of a detachable experiment pallet on Japan’s Kibo module for the International Space Station could be jeopardized by the scheduled 2010 retirement of the space shuttle. The pallet may never fulfill its originally intended function of transporting experiments to and from the space station...
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