Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Space Station Assembly

Now that we've flown a good Space Shuttle mission, it's time to get back to the business of building as Space Station. Check out this animation, one of the best I've ever seen, showing the assembly sequence of the ISS. Right now we're about 1/3 - 1/2 of the way through.

2 comments:

Jena said...

Dang!! That's a lot of stuff! And that one little black pieces keeps moving all over the place...what's up with that?

Rob, Melissa, Luke & Joel Green said...

Those are the mating adapters that allow the shuttle to dock to the station. Sometimes we have to move them to another docking port to make room for new modules.