The Pizza Hut chain of pizzerias sponsored an operation to demolish the International Space Station crew quarters
One million dollars was put up by the American "Pizza Hut" chain - so that the "logo"
Its will be mounted on the Russian three-stage "Proton" rocket. with the help of this donation
It was possible last week to launch a huge, 22-ton facility, which will be the
The crew quarters of the International Space Station, which is being built at a height of 400
km above the earth. Ilmala took over the sponsorship of the pizzeria chain
The operation, he would be rejected again.
According to the plan, the station will be staffed at the end of October. The first team
It is planned to live there for 11 days. It will be American-Russian under the command of
Astronaut William Shepherd. The construction of the entire station, which weighs 488
tons, should be completed in .2005
The station's living quarters took off on the giant rocket from the space base
Baikonur in Kazakhstan - after four previous "proton" launches that failed.
The Russians called the launched module "Zvezda" (star). It contains a system
Bedrooms, bathroom, kitchenette, laboratory. Until July 26, the facility will be surrounded
the Earth and then it will stick to the skeleton of the station that was "stuck" in space earlier.
The residential facility will also serve as a dock for the space vehicles that will arrive from Earth with
Regular supplies and visitors.
All the richest countries in the world participate in the space station project
of over 60 billion dollars. It is designed to prove that life can be sustained
reasonable in a man-made facility from which it may be possible, in the future,
to take off even to more distant stars.
