Appliance of Science: What life is like on the International Space Station

Some of us have seen it as a bright light moving through the night sky, but what exactly is the International Space Station and who occupies it?

The first residential crew arrived on the International Space Station on November 2, 2000. 

The International Space Station (ISS) is a residential research unit, orbiting approximately 400 kilometres above the surface of our planet. It took 10 years to build and involved the collaboration of five different space agencies, representing 15 different countries. It took more than 40 missions to transport and build the station as it exists today.

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