The first six-person crew on the International Space Station will have much better power and life-support accommodations following the space shuttle Endeavour's just-concluded visit than was considered likely for most of the time the orbiter was docked. After a sometimes-difficult STS-126/ULF-2 logistics and repair flight, Endeavour left behind a working water reclamation system that will ease the logistics load when the crew doubles to six next May, and an electric-power generating system that may not need expensive and time-consuming repairs after all. The mission, which was set to end with Endeavour's landing at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., as early as Nov. 30, was a textbook example of what has been a long-stated goal of the ISS-"learning to live and work in space."
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