Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
January 9, 2014 06:24 am GMT

Obama Extends International Space Station Lifespan to 2024

Iss

The United States is extending the International Space Station's operations for an additional four years until at least 2024.

U.S. President Barack Obama's announced on Wednesday that it approved the extension, and encouraged other countries to take similar action

See also: 7 Oddball Things Found on the Space Station

"The ISS is the most complex and challenging engineering endeavor in history," according to a White House statement written by John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Charles Bolden, a NASA administrator. "The key to its success has been the combination of NASA ingenuity and international cooperation." Read more...

More about Space, Nasa, Barack Obama, International Space Station, and Us World

Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/lXIrTz1cvB8/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Mashable

Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.

More About this Source Visit Mashable