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The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...
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.
On Thursday, NASA said that, “pending weather and operational readiness,” the Starliner will undock from the International Space Station no earlier than 6:04 EDT on September 6. Following a ...
Following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, in early 2003 President George W. Bush, announced his Vision for Space Exploration which called for the completion of the American portion of the International Space Station by 2010 (due to delays this would not happen until 2011), the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet following its completion ...
Up until December 2022, the International Space Station had moved out of the way of space junk 32 times since 1999, according to a quarterly report from NASA.
ISRO chairman K. Sivan announced in 2019 that India will not join the International Space Station, but will instead build a space station of its own. [94] of 52 Tonne Mass [95] It is intended to be completed 5–7 years after the conclusion of the Gaganyaan program. [96] Starlab: NanoRacks Voyager Space Airbus MDA Space Mitsubishi Corporation ...
On 2 January 2004, a minor air leak was detected on board the ISS. [2] At one point, five pounds of air per day were leaking into space and the internal pressure of the ISS dropped from nominal 14.7 psi down to 14.0 psi, although this did not pose an immediate threat to Michael Foale and Aleksandr Kaleri, the two astronauts on board.