SPACE STATION DELAY MAY AID WORKERS.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Delays in the construction of the international space station might move up the arrival of the space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. Atlantis to Palmdale by three months, lessening the time 200 Boeing North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. employees will be out of work. Atlantis' arrival in late July instead of early November is being considered as NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. looks at options to cope with a seven-month slip in the space station construction schedule, said Boeing North American spokesman Alan Buis. It is not known when a decision will be made. Boeing will lay off about 200 employees as work is completed on $47 million worth of modifications to the orbiter Endeavour at Air Force Plant 42, then brought back for Atlantis. Endeavour is scheduled to be rolled out for its trip back to Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) U.S. launch site for manned space missions. [U.S. Hist.: WB, So:562] See : Astronautics on March 24. ``Work is two weeks ahead of schedule and will be significantly under cost,'' Buis said. Work on Atlantis will include 50 major modifications, including installing new navigation equipment and cockpit This article is about the flight deck of an aircraft. For other uses, see Cockpit (disambiguation). A cockpit is the area usually nearer the front of a piloted aircraft from which a pilot controls the aircraft. instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration. instrumentation In technology, the development and use of precise measuring, analysis, and control equipment. and adding a storage module for parts that will be used in the construction of the international space station. The modification work is expected to last about 10 months. The work was originally scheduled to be finished after Atlantis completed a flight in September to the Russian space station Mir, but that mission was changed as NASA reorganizes its flight schedule to deal with delays in the international space station. |
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