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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).
This list of space stations is grouped by countries responsible for their operations. The space stations where multiple countries are responsible for their operations are listed separately. Planned and canceled space stations are excluded from this list.
Now a museum piece. OPS-4: USSR 3 [115] 1979 Constructed, but Almaz program cancelled in favour of uncrewed recon satellites. Freedom: NASA 14–16 [116] 1993 Merged to form the basis of the International Space Station. Mir-2: USSR Roscosmos: 2 [117] Columbus MTFF: ESA: 3 Galaxy: Bigelow Aerospace: Robotic [118] 2007
European countries not a part of the International Space Station programme will be allowed access to the station in a three-year trial period, ESA officials say. [91] The Indian Space Research Organisation has made it clear that it will not join the ISS and will instead build its own space station. [92]
Uninterrupted occupation has been sustained since the operational transition from the Mir to the International Space Station (ISS), with its first occupation in 2000 [1]. Currently there are two fully operational space stations – the ISS and China 's Tiangong Space Station (TSS), which have been occupied since October 2000 with Expedition 1 ...
A SpaceX crew on a rescue mission have arrived at the International Space Station, but it will still be some time before stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can ...
The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. Zarya , the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 Space Shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity , the first of three node modules, and connecting it to Zarya .
Speaking with students at Needham High School from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, Jan. 27, Williams opened up about life in the space station, according to CBS affiliate WBZ-TV.