By- Naiteek Bhatt
The International Space Station or ISS is a permanently crewed on-orbit laboratory
The ISS is a multi-nation construction project and was designed between 1984 and 1993
The main construction of the International Space Station was completed between 1998 and 2011
The International Space Station is 356 feet end-to-end and orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 402 km
The orbiting laboratory is the largest humanmade object ever to orbit Earth with a mass of over 4,00,000 kg
It travels at 17,500 mph and orbits Earth every 90 minutes.
The ISS carries a crew of between 3 and 13 depending on the number of people and passenger vehicles during the handover periods
The ISS has hosted over 260 individuals from 21 countries in over 60 expeditions
There have been over 260 spacewalks at the International Space Station since 1998
The Space agencies of the US, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada operate the ISS