Its astronauts Steve Swanson and Richard Arnold undertook the six-hour, seven-minute spacewalk required to install the truss.
The spacewalkers then plugged in power and data connectors to the truss and prepared a radiator to cool it.
From the truss bridges of the 1800s to patented designs such as the Golden Gate in 1936, bridge design has led to patents and new technologies.
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The Starboard 6 truss holds the fourth pair of solar arrays needed to fully power the orbiting outpost.
In that category is the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River north of Seattle, which collapsed into the water days ago after officials say an oversized truck load clipped the steel truss.
"Election now, election now, " was frequently the chant, and a fallback line for some of the speakers - like the Nationals leader Warren Truss - who are not renowned for the power of their oratory.
It was just as hard to play as the Hoyer, because again, the strings were too high off the fingerboard, and, because there was no truss rod, the neck was weak.
Writing for the website Conservative Home, Ms Truss argued that England needed to change the way it organised and provided childcare.
Daniel Garber employs broken Impressionist brushstrokes in "The Bridge at New Hope" (1952), its steel-truss span evoking the serene industrial views of Charles Sheeler and the American Precisionists.
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The afternoon's final debate was opened the Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, Liz Truss, and focused on the use of calculators in schools.
Ms Truss believes the experience of France illustrates that quality is not jeopardised by higher ratios.
The authors include Elizabeth Truss and Dominic Raab, both tipped to be promoted in a future reshuffle.
Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 crew carried it into orbit in May 2011, where it was installed on the station's truss structure.
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Children's Minister Liz Truss said the proposals would make more childcare places available and reduce costs for parents "in the long term".
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Children's Minister Liz Truss told the Today programme that the ratio of children to child carers can be raised but only if the carers' qualifications meet new standards.
Liz Truss, the MP for South West Norfolk, who had campaigned to keep RAF Marham open when it was threatened with closure, was delighted the new aircraft would be based there.
Sitting in Woody's Family Restaurant on the town's main drag, roof truss salesman Kevin Moore explains that he worried the proposed windmills could hurt property values, stunt the town's growth and flick dangerous ice balls. (Navitas says it's not a problem.) He went to county board meetings with 200 angry citizens, who helped stall Navitas for a year.
Using the arm, the astronaut lifted the platform's fifth truss, or backbone, segment into place.
An earlier report from Ms Truss suggested that the average family spent more than a quarter of their earnings on childcare - Britain has some of the most expensive childcare in the world, with some mothers saying it does not make financial sense to work.
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However her critics argued that Ms Truss had omitted the extra costs to the Dutch system borne by grandparents - who were already caring for their children - entering the system as child minders and scooping up state funding for a role they were already playing.
To counter her critics, Ms Truss has focused on the experience of France where she believes they manage higher ratios without jeopardising quality.
Ms Truss has argued that the changes would lower childcare costs and allow professionals in the sector to be paid higher salaries.
South West Norfolk Conservative Association's chairman David Hills is understood to support Ms Truss, who stood for the Conservatives in Calder Valley in West Yorkshire at the 2005 election.
The dramatic ceiling vaults to impressive 43-feet at the center, providing an arched steel truss over a 150- by 234-foot cement floor making it an ideal venue for rehearsals as well.
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Elizabeth Truss wants to be one of the key voices in the debate.
Ms Truss said an over-reliance on calculators meant children missed the rigorous grounding in mental and written arithmetic they needed to progress.
In a written answer to a parliamentary question, Ms Truss confirmed that 261 schools were due to be rebuilt under the government's Priority Schools Building Programme.
Ms Truss has pushed for reform to regulations imposed on child minders to increase the number of child minding places.
"That might also be a function of the fact that these people are engaging more in social media, " said Mark Truss, JWT's director of brand intelligence.
Conservative MP Elizabeth Truss, who wants deregulation in childcare, said quality needed to be improved in the sector.
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