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Re: Assembly of The International Space Station

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assembly of The International Space Station
>> http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151109.html
> 
>> Explanation: It is the largest and most sophisticated object ever
>> built off the Earth. It has taken numerous spaceflights and over a
>> decade to construct. The International Space Station (ISS) is
>> currently the premiere habitat for humans in Earth orbit, and an
>> amalgamation of sophisticated orbiting laboratories that have
>> examined everything from the formation of new materials and medicines
>> created in microgravity -- to the limitations of the human body -- to
>> the composition of the universe. This month, the ISS is celebrating
>> 15 years of continuous human habitation. The ISS has been visited by
>> astronauts from 15 countries, so far, and has international partners
>> led by NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), CSA (Canada), JAXA (Japan),
>> and ESA (Europe). The featured animation shows the piece-by-piece
>> construction of the ISS from 1998 to 2011. Spanning the length of a
>> football field, the ISS can be seen as an unusually bright spot
>> drifting slowly overhead by anyone who knows when and where to look.
>>

Whoopde fucking do. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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