International Space Station Boeing also is responsible for the development of the Earth-orbiting U.S. laboratory, crew quarters, and a connecting node to which crew quarters and laboratory modules are berthed. A suite of research facilities will equip the Station as a science and engineering research laboratory. Once on orbit, the station will weigh some 900,000 pounds and span an area the size of one and three-quarters football fields. The components that will be carried to space during the first four U.S. assembly flights are in various stages of manufacture at sites around the globe. Boeing is handling development of the station's massive solar power arrays and its complex electrical storage and distribution system. The first two of three crewmembers named to occupy the International Space Station beginning in May 1998 are U.S. astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev.
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