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The 40th President of the United States of America spoke those words at a time when the idea of creating a large research facility in space seemed to be the next natural goal after demonstrating the Space Shuttle could fly, and fly again. The idea of a significant national space station had turned into plans for a largely ‘international’ station to help with the operating costs and development of associated hardware and logistics supply.
I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and do it within a decade.
President Ronald W. Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1984
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At the time of writing in 2017, members of the 50th ISS Expedition Shane Kimbrough (NASA, Commander), Andrei Borisenko (Russian Flight Engineer) and Sergei Ryzhikov (Russian Flight Engineer) were nearing the end of their tour.
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Shayler, D.J. (2017). An Alternative Plan. In: Assembling and Supplying the ISS . Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40443-1_1
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