NASA's Station plan relies on Russia for early life support

NASA's plan for removing Russia from the "critical path" to International Space Station assembly has no provision for placing U.S.-built environmental control and life support (ECLS) systems on the orbiting laboratory until October 2002 at the earliest, and concedes that work on advancing that date...

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