The shuttle crew will be routing electrical and television cables outside the outpost and installing the station s toilet, among other things. Generally speaking, they ll be setting up house for the first full-time station crew, which is due to arrive at the outpost in early November. Right now, the station is pretty full of all the equipment they are going to use in the future, and we re going to do as much as we can to put the clutter away - basically, unload the moving boxes so that you have a place to live instead of a house full of boxes. Kirschner and her husband, Mark, operate an expert packing, crating and moving service, and the type of set-up work the shuttle crew will be doing wouldn t be too much of a problem, she said. Both Brand and Kirschner, meanwhile, are willing to give NASA a pretty good deal on the move, which will cost the federal government about a half billion dollars.
Brand has an even better deal.
After all, the panoramic view from above would be more than a fair trade.