In 1998, the International Space Station (ISS) was launched piece-by-piece and assembled in space. It is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit, 245 miles up, traveling 4.76 miles/sec at a max speed of 17,400 mph. The project involves the collaboration of five space agencies: the United States’ NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, Japan’s JAXA, Europe’s ESA, and Canada’s CSA, with 10 scientists currently on board.
The ISS provides a platform to conduct scientific research, with power, data, cooling, and crew available to support experiments.
And the spirit of mankind’s alliance and legacy of exploration lives on . . .