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Science 4 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5480, pp. 707 - 709
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5480.707
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NASA LIFE SCIENCES:
An Improvement in Vital Signs

Andrew Lawler

Last week a hefty Russian module with living and working quarters for astronauts docked with the pieces of the international space station already in orbit, a critical step in creating a full-time orbiting laboratory. Meanwhile, NASA bureaucrats put the finishing touches on a realignment of the agency's struggling biology effort that should bolster fundamental research and allow scientists to make better use of the facility, scheduled to be completed in 2005. The two events raise the hopes of U.S. academic space life scientists that their discipline is at last on the ascent at NASA.

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