At last
Doing something useful with the overpriced moneypit ISS.
Putting people in space for years on end isn't advancing colonisation one iota, and they'll never build a moon base whilst Fujistu, EDS and HP etc are draining the government pots with their overpriced support contracts and we rely on breathing oxygen.
As for bench testing, remembe how much money it took to build Hubble and launch before someone noticed the mirror was wrong BIG OOPS!