The Houston facility seems to grow as the space station does. There is little doubt that Boeing will eventually take over the entire 64,000 sf of the Armand Plaza complex, owned by Koll Bren Schreiber. There's only 17,400 sf left.
Houston is Boeing's international space station headquarters. Houston teams design, develop, integrate, test and deliver the US-built elements, including: US Laboratory interconnecting nodes and structures, the power system data management system, environmental control and life support systems, plus other critical hardware and software. "This is one of the most complex and challenging projects ever undertaken," Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit says.
The ISS now has "tenants." A three-member crew, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Russian Soyuz rocket Oct. 31, docked to the space station two days later to begin the permanent human presence in space.
The crew, William Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, will stay for four months, performing installation, checkout and flight test duties and continue station assembly. They will be relieved by another crew of three scheduled to launch in February on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Their new home in space will consist of three modules: Zvezda, the Russian Service Module, which serves as living quarters and onboard control center for the early station; Zarya, a module that provides supplementary power and propulsion functions and Unity, a Boeing-built connecting module that provides the attachment points for future US segments.
The last shuttle "delivery" flight for the year 2000 had launched yesterday. Seven flights are planned for 2001.
Boeing Company's ISS effort involves more than 5,000 employees directly involved in some facet of the program. It directs a national industry team comprising most major US aerospace companies and hundreds of small contractors, as well as Boeing. It integrates the work of participants from the 15 countries that have joined the US to form the ISS team.
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