SPACE LAB

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

International space station is the  largest  man made structure in space, it was  built in pieces  and launched in  space and assembled into orbit.

Its home where astronauts live and it is also called as space lab.

                         

MORE ABOUT  ISS

•      ISS  took many years to turn this into reality, in 1984 United States announced a project called Space Station freedom it was never built in original form as it was designed during the architecture.
• In 1993 several countries got involved in the ISS and name was officially changed into International Space Station and five years later construction began  in ISS.  
•  The first part of  ISS sent to space was the module called Zaraya it was launched into space  on a Russian Proton rocket on 20^th November 1998 .
• In 2002 people lived on the space  station over 136 days
•  NASA and its partners around the world finished the space station in 2011 .

                          

COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN  ISS

 Russian federation, United States, Japan, Canada  and eleven member of the European space agency ( Belgium , Denmark , France , Germany , Italy, Netherlands ,Norway , Spain ,Sweden, Switzerland and  the United Kingdom )

PURPOSE OF  ISS

•              It’s mainly used  to conduct science experiment  that can only done in space .
• Capability of  doing  future research in space and also having  new commercial entities  operate in space .
• ISS  is suited for testing spacecraft system  and equipment required for mission of  moon and mars

SPECIFICATION OF ISS

•  Only six astronauts lives in the ISS  and they generally switch out  every six month  so that no can spends too much in space .
•   The station size is about  the size   of  an American        football field .
• It’s  located  just outside the earth’s atmosphere
•   ISS only take about 92 minutes to orbit the earth by travelling with the speed of 28,000 kilometres per hour. 

•  The ISS will slowly lose altitude , if nothing was done    station would eventually burn up  as it reenter the earth’s atmosphere.  To prevent this station must be  periodically rebooted  to stay in space.
• ISS have five bedrooms  and it has two bathrooms ,and 360 degree bay window .                          

• On  the  ISS  urine passes through a special water treatment plant and that turns it into drinking water.
•  All astronauts in  ISS must  work-out  atleast two hour per day to maintain normal earth-based bodily health .
•  ISS can be seen from earth with  naked eye.
•  The length of the wire is around 8 miles just to connect electricity power in the system.
• Oxygen in the ISS comes from a process called electrolysis.
• ISS is the most expensive  object  ever built at $150 dollar.