The spacewalk was the 163rd spacewalk dedicated to space station construction or maintenance since construction of the outpost began in 1998.
The tradition has declined however in recent years due to rapid urbanization, scarcity of timber and lack of available construction space, all of which combine to threaten its transmission and survival.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
With the White House and Congress pressuring NASA to reduce space station costs and construction delays, the agency felt compelled to adhere to a fixed shuttle flight schedule for station missions, which would affect non-station missions as well, the report said.
This lifting muscle, again, will be necessary for the construction of a space station.
Almost all the new construction of such space has shifted to the area around the airport or farther south.
On the inside, construction of the main space is still underway, but a long, inviting bar at one end is complete--well-dressed New Yorkers huddled against it are easy to imagine.
Dr Patrick's first mission was as the robotic arm operator on STS-116 - a mission of the Discovery shuttle in 2006 to continue the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).
Atlantis is set for a construction mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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And there's another 1.2 million square feet of space--unspoken for--under construction.
One of them was on display when I visited the Storyscapes space, which was still very much under construction Tuesday evening, at the seventh-floor Bombay Sapphire House of Imagination on 121 Varick St.
But another person familiar with the search said the company was concerned that there were "too many columns" for the construction of the kind of studio space that Al Jazeera America will need.
The plane will be built in California at the Mojave Air and Space Port in a new Stratolaunch hangar currently under construction.
The MAGNET center will not require new construction but will occupy eighth-floor space in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center, a 1990s office park.
Server space, bandwidth, electricity, the actual design and construction of the doodle.
The pace of real-estate construction is still slowing: new residential floor space fell 8.2% year-on-year in the first five months of 2012.
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And classes will begin next fall in space loaned by Google to the city while the campus is under construction.
James and his welders machined, riveted and hammered 18-gauge steel and razor-thin aluminum into a space-age-looking vehicle, applying some of the same construction methods Airstream uses in its shiny luxury trailers.
While its competitors are construction and finance guys who understand how to build retail space, Value Retail is a company run substantially by women who are creating an environment that appeals to women shoppers.
To induce construction, the authorities had to double the amount of office space allowed.
Under this plan, hundreds of thousands of new construction jobs would be immediately created for demolition and conversion to green space.
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The safari park said it is dedicated to providing a retirement space for dysfunctional elephants, which led it to undertake its largest-ever construction project in the park's 43-year history.
During a tour of the latest construction site, the interior of the West Building was still largely raw space, while the taller annex building already had pipes and wiring installed.
According to Real Estalker, the 4-floor ocean view home is still under construction and was designed with more than 14, 000-square feet of living space.
Construction on 260, 000 square meters of office, commercial, residential and hotel space is to start in 2001 and be completed in two phases by 2007.
Several outfits at the show offered products enabling construction of cubesat and even smaller satellite products including Celestial Circuits, JP Aerospace and Kentucky Space.
"It's very, very confined, and no construction work went on, or no clean up went on in this 18-inch space between the two buildings" after the attacks.
Construction on a four-story sister building, with 20, 000 square feet of retail space and 86 rental units, will start around November.
Notable highlights in the ship's career have included the first construction mission to the ISS by a US orbiter, and the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Located on the Cotai Strip, the Galaxy Macau will almost double in size after the second phase of construction is completed in mid-2015, with the addition of 450, 000 square meters of space.
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