The ATV - the biggest, most sophisticated spacecraft yet flown by the European Space Agency - passed just 30km under the ISS as it moved to the parking position.
Even if, down the road, it turns out that you voted in favor of a future Enron-type management team, you can always point to ISS as cover for your vote.
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Regardless of that answer, in any proxy contest, like SandRidge and Dell, the endorsement of proxy voting services such as ISS or Glass Lewis is critical.
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They can use scanning tools -- such as the ISS Internet Scanner -- to scan for it.
This is the ship the US space agency (Nasa) is developing to send astronauts beyond the ISS to destinations such as asteroids and Mars.
The new ISS crew, referred to as Expedition Two, includes two Americans, Susan Helms and James Voss, and their Russian commander Yury Usachev.
When that's completed, he'll build a model of its big brother, the BA330: At 11, 600 cubic feet, it has nearly as much volume as the entire ISS (see chart, p. 158).
But with many laboratory tasks being automated, there should also be scope to begin new activities, and the partners believe one key role for the ISS going forward will be as a development platform for deep space exploration.
Why, then, should ISS adopt a policy that treats them as if they were?
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Discovery will take parts and supplies to the ISS and test new safety features such as a repair-kit for heatshield tiles and a 15m-long robotic arm that will inspect the shuttle for damage in orbit.
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But as a partner on the ISS programme, and following an agreement to extend space station operations until 2020, Europe has the right to claim a long-duration ISS residency of six months roughly every two years.
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Influential investment advisers, such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), have started advising clients to vote against members of compensation committees or against compensation plans that exceed certain competitive benchmarks or don't have close enough ties to performance.
So the ISS's value for science and even as a staging post for deep space travel is not clear-cut.
The SPHERES had to perform all of those tasks autonomously, just as spacecraft would, once an ISS astronaut activated their code.
Shortly before berthing, Endeavour performed a nine-minute back-flip, known as a rendezvous pitch manoeuvre, allowing the ISS crew to capture up to 300 photographs of the shuttle's thermal protection system.
The ISS has a tendency to fall back to Earth over time as it drags through the top of the atmosphere.
If all goes as planned, the vehicle will arrive at the ISS on March 2, where it will be grappled and connected to the complex for three weeks.
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Two spacewalks outside the ISS will be performed during the course of the Discovery mission, as astronauts work to equip a recently installed US research laboratory called Destiny.
The iss office at most schools helps find living quarters, process paperwork such as visas, obtain financial aid and, as in Oh's case, to get students in classes to enhance their knowledge of English.
Oh, how the times have changed... its final mission saw Atlantis successfully deliver the Russian Mini-Research Module Rassvet to the ISS. She'll be prepped one last time to stand-by as a rescue ship for the upcoming (and final) missions of Endeavor and Discovery, but Atlantis' days in space are likely over.
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As a result, government regulators, investors, and shareholder advisors, like ISS (a provider of governance solutions), have come down strongly against employment agreements, deeming them to be one-sided.
Brynjolfsson argued that wealth iss being created more rapidly than ever, and that simply focusing on growth in developed nations as opposed to the developing world misses the point.
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