July 16, 2024 - The International Space Station has been continuously occupied for two decades, and the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard have taken more than 3.5 million photographs of our home planet from space.

... 6. It’s really, really big: the size of a football field, to be precise The ISS is the biggest object EVER made. And, despite the fact that it floats in space, it weighs a whopping 460 tons.

3 days ago - Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, JAXA’s HTV-X1 cargo craft, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo craft, the Soyuz MS-28 crew ship, and the Progress 92 and 93 resupply ships. ... Over 270 spacewalks in NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, and Roscosmos Orlan spacesuits have been conducted since 1998 at the International Space Station.

December 15, 2025 - The ISS has an internal pressurized volume of 32,333 cubic feet and weighs 930,000 pounds (32,333 cubic feet is the equivalent of 7.9 semi-trailers). ... The ISS missions, called expeditions, usually last about six months.

2 days ago - The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

1 week ago - A Boeing technician at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center prepares to install a hatch on ISS module Node 1 (Unity). Boeing built Node 1 from 1994-1997; it launched on Endeavour in 1998. The station’s solar arrays generate more power than required. While in sunlight, approximately 60% of this electricity charges the station’s batteries and provides power when it is in darkness. NASA astronauts installed a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure to enable the future installation of the station’s next roll-out solar array.

1 week ago - 290 individuals from 26 countries have visited the International Space Station.

May 14, 2025 - The ISS is not owned by one single ... the · European Space Agency (ESA). The International Space Station costs about $3 billion per year for NASA to operate, roughly a third of the human spaceflight budget,...

4 weeks ago - Orbiting some 400km (250 miles) above the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) represents one of mankind's most ambitious engineering projects. Since the first Expedition 1 mission, more than 280 astronauts and cosmonauts have visited ...

June 26, 2025 - The International Space Station (ISS) is the biggest object ever flown into space and can often be seen from Earth! It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 28 800 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day, as it flies around 400 kilometres above us. 15 countries, including the USA, Russia, ...

ten surprising facts about the international space station · Humans need a little less sleep in space because our bodies do very little work in a microgravity environment. It takes no effort at all to raise an arm, hold your head up, or move a bulky object

March 28, 2025 - Since Expedition 1 in the fall of 2000, 202 people had visited the station. ... NASA issues a cooperative agreement notice for a management partner. ... NASA selects the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space to manage the ISS National Lab. ... The first ISS National Lab solicitation to send science to the International Space Station is announced.

1 month ago - ... The station was designed between 1984 and 1993. Elements of the station were in construction throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe beginning in the late 1980s. The International Space Station Program brings together international ...

March 23, 2023 - ... ‍ The ISS is 356 feet long from end to end, about the length of a football field, and has a mass of 460 tons, or nearly a million pounds. The internal pressurized square footage is equal to that of a Boeing 747.

September 5, 2023 - For the past 20 years there has been a continuous human presence in space on the International Space Station (ISS).

November 20, 2018 - Astronauts have to work out for two hours a day while on board to help keep their muscles in shape while in space · More than 50 computers control all the systems on the station · The electrics on the ISS are all connected with eight miles of cabling · 230 individuals from 18 countries have visited the International Space Station

May 20, 2025 - The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique science laboratory.

June 26, 2025 - International Space Station facts: ... Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, one of the four crew members on the flight, became only the second Indian to travel to space after Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma in 1984...

February 24, 2025 - NASA's International Space Station ... in space exploration. Orbiting Earth 16 times daily, the space station measures 356 feet, larger than a six-bedroom house, and offers remarkable views....