the first shuttle ever to bounce : 15 years since sts 97 powered up the space station (part 1) /

Fifteen years ago,next week, STS-97 installed the first set of U.
S.-built solar arrays, and radiators and batteries onto the International Space Station (ISS),transforming it into the brightest artificial object in soil’s skies. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.deFifteen years ago, and next week,power—in the form of two immense, electricity-generating solar arrays, and together [...]

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