CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday unveiled a plan to finish the International Space Station that could see construction resume in September after a four-year hiatus and a new laboratory launched next year.
The future of the half-built orbiting research outpost depends on NASA proving that problems have been fixed with its space shuttle fuel tank that caused the 2003 Columbia disaster and reappeared on the only shuttle mission since the accident.
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