Today Science has made great progress. Things we thought was impossible till yesterday seems to be possible today. Today, we are seeing our future in Space with the Earth as well. One result of our achievements is International Space Station. Today in this blog, we will get to know some intersting facts about International Space Station.
International Space Station is a modular space Station flying in low Earth Orbit since 22 years. It is a multinational collaboration project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe) & CSA (Canada). The station serves as a microgravity & space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Meteorology, Physics & other fields. It was launched on 22 November 1998. It’s Mass is 419,725 kg, Length 73.0 m (239.4 ft.) & Width is 109.0 m (357.5 ft.).
The ISS was originally intended to be a laboratory, observatory & factory while providing transportation, maintainance & a low Earth Orbit staging base for possible future missions to the Moon, Mars & Asteroids. However, not all of the uses envisioned in the initial memorandam of understanding between NASA & Roscosmos have been realised. The ISS was given additional roles of Serving commercial, diplomatic & educational purpose.
Some intersting facts about ISS:
. ISS flies around the world every 90 minutes, travelling at 5 miles per second.
. In the space of just 24 hours, the space Station makes 16 orbits of Earth, travelling through 16 sunrises & sunsets.
. It’s 375 ft. Long from end to end thats about the same as a football pitch.
. After the moon, the ISS is the second brightest object in our night sky, you don’t even need a telescope to see it zoom over your house.
. There are two bathroom on board. There’s also one gym, six sleeping quarters & a 360 degree bay windows on ISS.
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. Six space ships can dock to the station at any one time.
. Astronauts have to work out for two hours a day while on board to help keep their muscles in space while in space.
. More than 50 computers control all the system on the station.
.The ISS weight about 420,000 kg that’s about the same as 320 cars.
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