1.   At the Naval Research Laboratory, Tousey concentrated on solar experiments aboard rockets and orbiting laboratories.

2.   But he said it is working on a crystal growing project that could have applications for the orbiting laboratory.

3.   It will provide for international science an orbiting laboratory the size of two football fields, the largest flying man-made object ever built.

4.   Its roving cameras could beam close-up images to astronauts within the orbiting laboratory or to experts on the ground.

5.   NASA believes the payments will reduce much of the uncertainty over the five to six-year assembly of the new orbiting laboratory.

6.   That move would jeopardize research aboard the orbiting laboratory by preventing NASA from increasing its crew from the current three to seven.

7.   The decision permits Russia to keep Mir functional, even as it joins its partners in the construction of a new orbiting laboratory.

8.   The vote was good news for Boeing Co., the prime contractor on the orbiting laboratory.

9.   When efforts to solicit public donations to keep its Mir space station aloft failed, the orbiting laboratory was ditched in the Pacific Ocean last month.

10.   Without it, future assembly of the new orbiting laboratory would be stalled.