On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Derek Lyons wrote:

Most of which had to be re-done, along with *much* else in order to
integrate the International partners.

Just a quick nit here, Derek; apparently you mean the station had to be
redone to accomadate the Russians. Remember that by 1993, the Europeans
(including Italy), and Japan were already long involved with the former
Freedom Space Station program. So, integrating them wasn't nearly the
challenge that integrating the Russians was since the other partners were
designing their hardware around the U.S. system requirements.
-Mike