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Science 14 December 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5550, p. 2265
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5550.2265c
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European, Japanese, and Canadian officials blasted NASA last week for unilaterally scaling back plans for the international space station. At a 6 December NASA advisory group meeting in Washington, D.C., the partners rejected a U.S. money-saving move to trim the station's crew from six to three. "Totally unacceptable," said J. Feustel-Büechl of the European Space Agency. The Europeans plan to write a protest letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Meanwhile, NASA-Administrator-to-Be Sean O'Keefe said at his 7 December Senate confirmation hearing that it is his "fondest hope" to expand the station's crew. But soaring costs in the station and other programs are forcing NASA to "ride the crest of a wave we don't fully control."

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