What does ISSP stand for?

The Chinese are unique among the threesome in not being part of the International Space Station program.

This mission is very important to ensuring the ISS is fully supported with spare parts before the space shuttle fleet retires," said Joy Bryant, vice president and program manager for Boeing's International Space Station program.

For nearly a decade since the international space station program began, the focus has been hauling people, supplies and giant high-tech tin cans to build the complex like an enormous orbital Erector set.

Nicholson retired from NASA in 2000 and joined Boeing as a special assistant to the company's International Space Station program manager.

The paper, which boasts of "Serving Florida's Space Coast," urged on October 16 that President Bush should "seize the moment and do something we recommended a year ago--invite the Chinese to become partners in NASA's International Space Station program.

Vacca was also a configuration management specialist, computer specialist, and the computer security official (CSO) for NASAs space station program (Freedom) and the International Space Station Program, from 1988 until his early retirement from NASA in 1995.

for International Space Station Program integration and ARES will provide support for configuration management, data management, information technology, safety and mission assurance, vehicle integrated performance, resource and budget analysis, program schedule development, engineering and technical services, spacecraft integration, international partner integration and strategic analysis planning.

As part of a corporate restructuring, Boeing relocated a few dozen workers from its International Space Station program in Huntington Beach to Palmdale.