NASA Science News for August 7, 2009

The International Space Station's new "space porch" is open for business. Barely two weeks after it was installed by the crew of space shuttle Endeavour, the Japanese-built platform is already bustling with experiments in astronomy and space physics--and that's just for starters.

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