This may be of interest if your interested in the space station and also what happens to some of your tax dollars although some is funded by other countries as well.
Watch the pieces come together as they are sent
up from Earth. This is the International Space
Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece.
I had no idea the Space Station had grown to this
size. Watch the left hand corner for dates. At the
end check out on the right side also. This is
really cool...
http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm