NASA cuts back plans for space station

Posted on: Jul. 23rd, 2004 || Source: cnn.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- NASA and its space partners Friday approved a scaled-down International Space Station with fewer astronauts and less science so the United States can meet a 2010 deadline for ending shuttle flights, a top NASA official said.

Space agencies in Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan gave unanimous approval to a NASA plan that means the orbiting platform, now about half completed, will never become the beehive of scientific and commercial research once envisaged.

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