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Space is No Place for the United States to Waver

Within a few days, orbiter Atlantis is scheduled to lift off on NASAโ€™s final space shuttle mission โ€” a flight that promises to bring the difficult assembly and outfitting of the international space station (ISS) to a successful close. Weโ€™ve known this day was coming for much of the last decade and witnessed space shuttleโ€™s Discovery and Endeavour enter retirement earlier this year.

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