International
Space Station
by Ariel
International
Space Station
by Ariel
The International Space Station is much more than just
a world class laboratory, it's a international human experiment. It teaches
us about life and work off are planet. Scientist say that it's '' The next
logical step in space exploration and that it will be the biggest man made
object in space.''
The International Space Station weigh between
240 pounds to 454 pounds, it weighs twice as much as Space Station Freedom.
The international space station will need 160 space walks, totaling 1,920
man hours to maintain it, its habitable volume: 15,000 cubic feet. Its
Solar panels provide electrical power to six states- of - the - laboratories.
The ISS began space assembly in June 1998, it circles approximately 400
Kilometers above the earth, has mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. The International
Space Station orbits with an altitude of 250 state miles, with an inclination
of 51.6 degrees. The International Space Station is from 90 feet to 131
feet tall, 290 feet wide, 356 feet long.
There are three modules or nodes; a laboratory, has
a truss segment, four solar arrays, a Habitation module, has three mating
adapters, and a centrifuge module.
The United States is responsible for developing and operating major elements and systems aboard the station, also thermal control including handling data. The ISS has 16 nations of resources; Canada, U.S, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and 11 nations of the European space agency. Columbus has a laboratory that's called ESA, it has given the biggest contribution to the International Space Station. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proposed that the US, with other countries, build a permanently inhabited space station.
The International Space Station has about 100 components,
Canadian mobile servicing system, payload capability, and Zarya which is
also called Functional Cargo Block. There have been a lot of people who
have been on the International Space Station
Earth researchers are using experiments aboard the
International Space Station to study health and safety issues.
On October 31,2000, the first crew of the ISS was
launched from Russia. There were three men - flight engineer Sergei Krikolev,
mission commander William Shepherd, and soyuz commander Yuri Gidzenko.
On August 3rd, at 15:55, Astronaut Thomas Reither stepped out of the International
Space Station to begin a six and a half space walk.
Credits:
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