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Beginnings of the International Space Station


ISS History & Timeline - ISS National Lab

Explore the rich history and milestones of the International Space Station (ISS) through the ISS National Lab's detailed timeline.

Space Station 20th: Historical Origins of ISS - NASA

The world's first experimental space station named Salyut into orbit. That first module formed the basis of later Soviet and Russian space stations.

International Space Station (ISS) | Facts, Missions, & History

News ... International Space Station (ISS), space station assembled in low Earth orbit largely by the United States and Russia, with assistance ...

International Space Station - NASA

The station was designed between 1984 and 1993. Elements of the station were in construction throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe beginning in the late ...

International Space Station — Everything you need to know

The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit using spacewalking astronauts and robotics.

International Space Station - NASA

Newman conducted the first ISS EVA on December 7, 1988, during the STS-88 mission, to connect electrical and data cables between the station's ...

Space station - Wikipedia

The first space station was Salyut 1 (1971), hosting the first crew, of the ill-fated Soyuz 11. Consecutively space stations have been operated since Skylab ( ...

Beginnings of the International Space Station - Clinton Digital Library

In June of 1993, President Clinton approved NASA's proposal to keep much of Freedom's design but add an existing spacecraft bus as an initial building block ...

ESA - Building the International Space Station

It would have been impossible to build the Space Station on Earth and then launch it into space in one go - there is no rocket big enough or powerful enough. To ...

A Brief History of Space Stations before the ISS - Popular Science

But a space shuttle was in the future. For the moment, NASA had an excess Apollo hardware from three cancelled lunar missions and opted to turn ...

International Space Station: history and facts

Facts and the history of the International Space Station, and scientific highlights of over 2 decades on the Earth-orbiting laboratory.

International Space Station, facts and photos - National Geographic

Construction began in November 1998, when the first piece of the eventual ISS structure—the Russian Zarya Control Module—was autonomously ...

International Space Station | ISS History, Structure & Orbit - Study.com

It is a multinational collaboration of countries including the United States, Russia, the European Union, Canada, and Japan. China did not choose to participate ...

The history and future of the International Space Station

The ISS is a huge achievement: a space station that has hosted decades of international collaboration and research.

Space station | Definition, History, & Facts - Britannica

In chronological order they are Salyut 1, Skylab, Salyuts 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Mir, the International Space Station, Tiangongs 1 and 2, and a larger Chinese space ...

International Space Station Facts and Figures - NASA

An international partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries operates the International Space Station. · The space station has been continuously ...

A Brief History of Space Exploration | The Aerospace Corporation

... Soviet Union and the United States. The space race was then followed by an era of space cooperation, highlighted by the International Space Station.

A 1-Minute History of the International Space Station - YouTube

Jan.27 -- Bloomberg's Kaitlin Meehan takes a look at the work that went into the global science project that is the International Space ...

Origins of the International Space Station - Wikipedia

The International Space Station programme represents a combination of three national space station projects: the Russian/Soviet Mir-2, NASA's Space Station ...

First residential crew arrives aboard the International Space Station

The arrival of Expedition 1 marked the beginning of a new era of international cooperation in space and of the longest continuous human ...