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97-17420 (December 10, 1997) --- Technicians at the Boeing clean room in Huntington Beach, California, assemble a test article for the first truss segment for the International Space Station in October 1997. The first segment, called the S0 truss, will be launched aboard a Space Shuttle in early 2000. The S0 truss test article assembly was completed in November, and assembly of the flight article is now under way. The first truss segment is 43 feet long. Eventually, nine such segments will be assembled in orbit to make up the 360-foot backbone of the station, holding the four giant sets of U.S. solar arrays to power the station's seven laboratories.
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97-17421 (December 10, 1997) --- An aluminum bulkhead of the center truss segment test article for the International Space Station completes machining at Boeing facilities in Huntington Beach, California, in October 1997. The bulkheads are coupled with longerons to make up the 43-foot-long center truss segment, designated the S0 truss segment. Nine such segments will eventually make up the 360-foot long truss for the station that will hold the four massive U.S. solar arrays, cooling radiators, associated electronics and batteries, and connecting lines. The S0 truss segment will be anchored atop the U.S. Laboratory module when it is launched in early 2000 on Space Shuttle mission STS-105.
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