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  ISS Quest Joint Airlock
The Quest Joint Airlock was delivered to the ISS by STS-104 and installed onto the Unity module.
In a series of spacewalks the astronauts moved the oxygen and nitrogen tanks onto the airlock exterior.The six tonne Airlock consisted of two cylinders of four meters diameter and a total length six meters.
The Airlock could be pressurized by the externally-mounted high pressure oxygen-nitrogen tanks, and was to be the sole unit through which all future EVAs were to take place.
www.astronautix.com /craft/issrlock.htm   (141 words)

  
 International Space Station Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Other assembly flights consist of modules lifted by the Russian Proton rocket or in the case of the Pirs Airlock by a Soyuz rocket.
Experimental equipment, fuel and consumables are and will be delivered by all vehicles visiting the ISS: the Shuttle, the Russian Progress, the European ATV (prospectively from May 2007 onwards) and the Japanese HTV.
A number of smaller pressurized sections will be adjunct to them (Soyuz spacecrafts (permanently 2 as lifeboats - 6 months rotations), Progress transporters (2 or more), the Quest and Pirs Airlocks, as well as periodically the MPLM, the ATV and the HT-V).
www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/International_Space_Station   (3781 words)

  
 International Space Station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
- !colspan="3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="FFDEAD"ISS Diagram - The International Space Station ('''ISS''') is a joint project of 16 countries: the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, Brazil and 11 countries of the European Union.
Initially planned as a NASA "Space Station Freedom" and promoted by President Reagan, it was found to be too expensive.
After the end of the Cold War, it was taken up again as a joint project of NASA and Russias Rosaviakosmos.
international-space-station.iqnaut.net   (1861 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
The Joint Economic Committee is one of only four joint committees of the U.S. Congress.
The committee was established as a part of the Employment Act of 1946, which deemed the committee responsible for reporting the current economic condition of the United States and for making suggestions for improvement to the economy.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /U.S._Congress_Joint_Economic_Committee   (119 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Human, Robotic Programs Share Lessons Learned For Success
NASA Prepares To Open A New Doorway To Space With Delivery Of New Joint Airlock To International Space Station (July 11, 2001) -- Space Shuttle Atlantis is poised for launch July 12 to open a new doorway into space.
The shuttle and its five-member crew will deliver the new American-made Joint Airlock to the International Space...
International Space Station -- The International Space Station (ISS) is a joint project of five space agencies.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/11/041122094200.htm   (1910 words)

  
 Space Station News, ISS Search, ISS Links: QuickSciTech
- has an EVA airlock and 4 docking ports:
Together in Orbit: The Origins of International Participation in the Space Station,
ISS Phase I: Shuttle-Mir Program Joint Report, SP-6108 (1999),
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