Do you know what the ISS is? On November 2, 2000, one American (Bill Shepherd) and two Russians (Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev) began living on the International Space Station. They started preparing the ISS for others and stayed for four months to finish making it habitable.
In November of 1998, a Russian rocket launched and carried the first piece of the International Space Station into space. The piece was called the Zarya control module. Two weeks later, the Endeavor—a United States space shuttle—carried the Unity node component. The first two pieces were joined together, and the building of the International Space Station was underway.
The current plan is for the space station to operate until at least 2028. After 2028, the fate of the ISS is unclear. Many scientists would like to replace it or renovate it for future use. No matter what happens, the International Space Station has been, and will continue to be, beneficial to many people for many reasons. NASA will also use what they learn to one day explore other worlds, reaching farther into space than ever before. The space station information will help prepare for human missions in the future.
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What you will learn in What Is the International Space Station?:
0:00 Introduction
0:31 What is the ISS?
1:14 How the ISS started
2:12 Different parts of the station
3:05 Why the space station is important
3:44 Review of the facts
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