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The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS.
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). The ISS is the largest space station ever built.
3 United States space stations. 4 Notes. ... Name Entity Program Crew size Launch ... Tiangong space station: CMSA; 3 29 April 2021 in orbit
Royal Air Force base made available to the United States by the British government, hosting a Geographically Separate Unit (GSU) of Space Delta 4 operating the AN/FPS-132 Upgraded Early Warning Radar. [11] Ka’ena Point Space Force Station United States 21st Space Operations Squadron (Detachment 3)
The United States has developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary agencies: NASA for civil space; the United States Space Force for military space; and the National Reconnaissance Office for intelligence space. These entities have invested ...
The three-story, 457,000-square-foot (42,500 m 2) Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) consists of two enormous processing bays, an airlock, operational control rooms, laboratories, logistics areas and office space for support of non-hazardous Space Station and Shuttle payloads to ISO 14644-1 class 5 standards. [49]
United States: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: 1962– 151 3,000,000 kg Interplanetary Launched each NASA crewed mission. Adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. United States: Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii
The Johnson Space Center is home to Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H), the NASA control center that coordinates and monitors all human spaceflight for the United States. MCC-H directed all Space Shuttle missions, and currently directs American activities aboard the International Space Station.