Location

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms

Start Date

24-4-1996 2:00 PM

End Date

24-4-1996 5:00 PM

Description

The International Space Station Program is the largest scientific cooperative program in history. It draws on the resources and expertise of 13 nations: the United States, Canada, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia. The development, integration and operation of the contributions of each partner into a single integrated Station, with all of its associated supporting systems, facilities, and personnel, is arguably the most complicated and difficult international peacetime effort ever undertaken. In order to deal with a task of this complexity, new systems of management, new international relationships, new types of partnerships, and new funding mechanisms had to be developed. The critical factors in meeting these challenges are the dedication of the people involved in all the nations who are participating and the relationships those people have formed with each other. A tremendous amount of credit for the continuing success of this Program goes to those people of all nationalities.

Comments

Space Station/ MIR Report

Session Chairman: Bill Bates, Chief of Staff, ISSA, NASA, Johnson Space Center

Session Organizer: Vanessa Stromer

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Paper Session II-B - The International Space Station: Background and Current Status

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms

The International Space Station Program is the largest scientific cooperative program in history. It draws on the resources and expertise of 13 nations: the United States, Canada, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia. The development, integration and operation of the contributions of each partner into a single integrated Station, with all of its associated supporting systems, facilities, and personnel, is arguably the most complicated and difficult international peacetime effort ever undertaken. In order to deal with a task of this complexity, new systems of management, new international relationships, new types of partnerships, and new funding mechanisms had to be developed. The critical factors in meeting these challenges are the dedication of the people involved in all the nations who are participating and the relationships those people have formed with each other. A tremendous amount of credit for the continuing success of this Program goes to those people of all nationalities.

 

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