Nearly $5 billion has already been spent on the station, which is supposed to be launched piecemeal in the mid to late 1990's.

He spent three years on the station, several times being appointed temporary lieutenant but being unable to have the commission confirmed.

Doctor Conway has spent two months on the station and is about to be confronted with several emergencies as well as his first educator tape.

Aeolus spent the rest of 1805 and 1806 on the Irish station, before departing for Halifax in August 1807.

Linenger officially traded places at 04:45 with Blaha who spent 118 days on the station and 128 days total on-orbit.

Even those who've spent millennia on the station would agree.

That seems hardly worth the billions already spent on the station (which is a new kind of black hole, one from which money cannot escape).

Congress has not determined how much to spend on the station after last month's agreement to reduce the budget deficit by $76 million over two years.

The question of how much Russia spends on the station (measured in USD), is, however, not easy to answer.

The idea of spending an extended period back on the station gave him the creeps, too.