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Establish the ISS Program Of®ce separate from, but residing at JSC, reporting to a new Associate Administrator (AA) for ISS. B. Consolidate prime and non-prime contracts into a minimum number of resulting contracts all reporting to the program of®ce. C. Develop a life cycle technical baseline and manage the ISS Program to total cost and schedule as well as ®scal year budgets. D. Consider revising the ISS crew rotation period to 6 months and reducing the 32 E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. The ISS Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force Space Shuttle ¯ight rate accordingly.

Establish research priorities. The Task Force is unanimous in that the highest research priority should be solving problems associated with long-duration human space ¯ight, including the engineering required for human support mechanisms, and provide the Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM) and centrifuge as mandatory to accomplish top priority biological research. Availability as late as FY08 is unacceptable, and establish a research plan consistent with the priorities, including a prudent level of reserves, and compliant with the approved budget.

Kibo is now the largest of the three laboratory modules in the American sector of ISS. In the ®rst instance Kibo would house three major experiments: . Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) Superconducting Sub-Millimeter-wave-limb Emission Sounder (SMILES) Partners 27 Figure 9. Russian stage extravehicular activities were completed from the Pirs Docking Module by astronauts wearing Russian Orlan-M pressure suits. Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) Japan's second major input into the ISS programme would be the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV).

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