Nov. 20, 2008- today
Nov. 20, 1998- Russians launch the first component of the International Space Station from their space center in Kazakhstan.
16- number of nations supporting the space station (including NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, and 11 members of the European Space Agency, or ESA: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.)
14- number of countries that have sent crews to the space station
167- number of individuals who have crewed the station
19,000 – number of meals they have eaten in space
30- number of flights to the station by American and Russian spacecraft
114- number of spacewalks involved in the construction of the station
1 - The length of the space station in football fields
6- area of the solar energy panels in basketball courts
240- number of miles above the Earth the space station orbits
57,309- number of orbits the station made in ten years
1,432,725,000- number of miles the station has travelled (That’s about a billion and a half miles- about the distance to Uranus!)
100,000- number of people on earth involved in support for the space station
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/10th_main.html
Nov. 20, 1998- Russians launch the first component of the International Space Station from their space center in Kazakhstan.
16- number of nations supporting the space station (including NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, and 11 members of the European Space Agency, or ESA: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.)
14- number of countries that have sent crews to the space station
167- number of individuals who have crewed the station
19,000 – number of meals they have eaten in space
30- number of flights to the station by American and Russian spacecraft
114- number of spacewalks involved in the construction of the station
1 - The length of the space station in football fields
6- area of the solar energy panels in basketball courts
240- number of miles above the Earth the space station orbits
57,309- number of orbits the station made in ten years
1,432,725,000- number of miles the station has travelled (That’s about a billion and a half miles- about the distance to Uranus!)
100,000- number of people on earth involved in support for the space station
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/10th_main.html
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