"This is what the ISS was meant to be -- a truly international orbiting laboratory," said Steve Payne, a NASA test director at the Kennedy Space Center.

“这就是建造国际空间站的本意—— 一个真正的国际轨道实验室”，美国宇宙航天局肯尼迪航天中心测试主管Steve Payne谈到。

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Atlantis is due to blast off on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station.

亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机将于周五在佛罗里达州肯尼迪太空发射中心发射升空，前往国际空间站。

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Where: Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA), University of Houston College of Architecture?

地点：太空建筑笹川阳平国际中心(SICSA)，休斯顿大学建筑学院。

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Bob Dempsey, at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, is the lead International Space Station flight director for this mission.

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Weekly Forbes Contributor , Professor Larry Bell, founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) at the University of Houston where he also heads the Graduate Program in Space Architecture.

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