The Space Squelette

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071201977.html

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After more than a decade of construction, it (((the International Space Station))) is nearing completion and finally has a full crew of six astronauts. The last components should be installed by the end of next year.

And then?

"In the first quarter of 2016, we'll prep and de-orbit the spacecraft," says NASA's space station program manager, Michael T. Suffredini.

That's a polite way of saying that NASA will make