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<p>A shuttle flight to bring the AMS to the space station would be a far more noble last flight than just re-stocking parts. Sort of right up there with servicing Hubble (IMO).</p><p>Old AMS "not to fly" articles:</p><p>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5818/1476</p><p>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120100760.html</p><p>Possible last shuttle flight?</p><p><font color="#800080"><strong>"While a CR will affect the downstream end of the gap, congressional action also could move the near-term side of the gap to the right, narrowing it by a few months. Griffin has told Congress NASA could fly one more shuttle flight beyond the 10 on the flight manifest to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) particle physics experiment to the ISS, provided another $300 million - $400 million is appropriated."</strong></font></p><p><strong><font color="#800080">link: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/Gap081108.xml&headline=NASA%20Compares%20Ares/Orion%20Targets%20To%20Funding</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/11/30/PH2007113001623.jpg" border="0" alt="A photo of the AMS Detector, which is expected to be at the Kennedy Space Center in December 2008." />the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer</p><p><img src="http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/payload/missions/ams/ams-logo.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>