Passage: The additional 200 million dollars to build a backup for the missing Russian service module, he said, will come from the US shuttle program, but a decision to build the substitute component will not be made until mid-May. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had planned to launch the first module of the 43 billion dollar space station Alpha in November of this year.
What event has already finished? What event has begun but has not finished? What will happen in the future? What happened before NASA planned to launch the module? What might happen after the decision to build is made? What happened before the module went missing? What could happen before the launch?