It would be manifestly contrary to U.S. interests even to try since those interests dictate that the American military be able to control space as a theater of operations in any future conflict.

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During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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