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The International Space Station (ISS) is the habitable artificial satellite
The International Space Station (ISS) is the habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit
The first component of ISS was launched into Earth’s orbit in 1998 and the last pressurized module was fitted in 2011. The ISS was built by the cooperation of five major space agencies – NASA, RSA, ESA, CSA, and JAXA. Sixteen countries have contributed to the construction of ISS
The space station is continuously occupied since November 2000. More than 200 individual from 18 countries has visited the space station.
The space station travels at a whopping speed of 5 miles per second and orbits around Earth about every 90 minutes. Thus in a complete day of 24 hours,
The size of ISS is about 356 feet(109 meters) by 240 feet (73 meters) which is slightly larger than a football field giving astronauts enough space. A crew of 6 people from multiple countries lives and work on the space station. T
There have been 205 spacewalks on space station till date by Astronauts and cosmonauts for construction, maintenance and repair of space station since December 1998.