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ICM was to launch on board the [[Space Shuttle]], deploy from the Shuttle's cargo bay, and mate with the ISS at the Russian Control Module (called Zarya). Once on orbit ICM would provide sufficient fuel for one to three years of operation.|sign=NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department|source=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://code8200.nrl.navy.mil/icm.html |title=ICM - Interim Control Module |publisher=[[Naval Research Laboratory|NRL]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021090451/http://code8200.nrl.navy.mil/icm.html |archivedate=21 October 2009}}</ref>}}
After the successful launch of Zvezda, ICM was placed in a caretaker status at NRL's Payload Processing Facility in Washington, D.C. Should it become necessary to complete and launch ICM, it is estimated that it would take between two and two-and-a-half years to do so.<ref name="Handberg2003">{{cite book|last=Handberg|first=Roger|title=Reinventing NASA: Human Space Flight, Bureaucracy, and Politics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=plzgglHCV10C&pg=PA116|year=2003|publisher=Praeger|___location=Westport, CT|isbn=978-0-275-97002-4|page=116}}</ref>
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