How are the space missions planned and funded?
K: […] By NASA’s tax dollars and in the case of the international space station it is the cooperation of about 16 countries all getting together to build something that we think is really important to have in space and that is a laboratory up there where we can understand what happens to people when they are in space because we have big plans and those involve you as well. And that is we are on our way back to the Moon to understand more about space travel and eventually on to Mars. And so we need to understand what happens to people, how do we build equipment, what do we make it out of, there is that material science that end of things that’s so near and dear to my heart. So that’s our plans for the future. Right now we have a space mission up there. The space shuttle is docked to the space station as we speak. They have just finished breakfast and they are getting ready to put a new giant piece of the space station onto it. It came up on the back of the space shuttle in the payload b
