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Senate Appropriations Committee HOW IT WORKS: The International
Opposes ATC Privatization Plan Space Station - Full Documentary
(1080p HD, 60fps)
General aviation leaders are welcoming a bipartisan CLICK THE PICTURE
letter from Senate Appropriations Committee leaders
opposing plans for the creation of a privatized air traffic This educational HD video shows how the International
control system. Space Station works and operates. In Earth's orbit,
The letter was sent February 28 to Senate Commerce NASA Astronaut Sunita (Suni) Williams tours and
Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD) and Ranking describes how International Space Station's internal
Member Bill Nelson (D-FL), and signed by structure is divided into two pressurized modules, the
Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran (R-
MS) and Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as well Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) and the United States
as Subcommittee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME) and Orbital Segment (USOS).
Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI).
The ESA (European Space Agency) also uses the
That letter comes as Congress continues to debate International Space Station for research and
FAA reauthorization funding, which many airlines and experiments. The International Space Station
backers in the House want to see separate ATC from maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 and
the federal government and create a not-for-profit 435 km (205 and 270 mi) by means of re-boost
corporation that would manage day-to-day air traffic maneuvers using the engines of the Zvezda module or
control functions and NextGen programs. other visiting spacecraft.
It completes 15.54 orbits around the earth per day.
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Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams is an American astronaut of
Indian-Slovenian descent and holds records for total
spacewalks and spacewalk time by a woman.
