Station to be manned in early 1999

NASA has released a new 45-flight assembly schedule for the International Space Station (ISS) under which permanent manned operations of the station are due to start in January 1999 and reach completion in 2003 - nine years later than planned when the programme was inaugurated by US President Ronald Reagan ...

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