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plan got off to a good
start. Canada, Japan, PERSPECTIVES
and the European CITIZENS
AGAINST THE ISS
Space Agency (ESA)
Not everyone was happy with
agreed to contribute the construction of the ISS.
to the station. But the In 1997 a group called the
Council for Citizens Against
cost kept growing. To Government Waste (CCAGW)
cut costs, the station argued that the ISS was too
expensive. At the time, the
was redesigned. ISS program cost $1.8 billion
Construction was per year. Funding it took
money away from other space
delayed many years. In
programs. Other spacecraft
1991 the Soviet Union were cancelled. CCAGW
pointed out that the United
broke up into many
States was already heavily in
separate countries. The debt. It believed that money
largest was Russia. It should be spent to reduce the
debt rather than fund the ISS.
took over the Soviet
space program. In 1993
Russia joined the space station effort. The project was
named the International Space Station.
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