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.
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.
Comments
Space Station/ MIR Report
Session Chairman: Bill Bates, Chief of Staff, ISSA, NASA, Johnson Space Center
Session Organizer: Vanessa Stromer