Space Station Information
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Of course, it is strange to inhabit the earth
no longer, To give up customs one barely had time
to learn ...
-Rainer Maria Rilke, "The First Elegy"
1923
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The Human body is a very fragile thing. It has many needs
which must be provided for. What type of habitats will the
future be using? The varieties of future habitat will be as
diverse as the places we decide to live. While traveling in
space, a miniature earth is needed to survive.
The image below is real
time of the ISS and its current location
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NASA
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The International Space Station is a Tribute
to the Future.
- Boeing
International Space Station Site This site
contains an ISS Overview, a section to which information
about successive ISS missions will be added as the
construction of the station proceeds, and sections
on ISS Components and Structures, Systems, and Science.
There is a full array of web pages in each of these
categories that describes the program and its parts
in detail.
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- NASA
ISS Page The space Station of the Future is currently
being built as you read this. You can get all the details about
it here. The final station will have an end-to-end width, or wingspan,
of 108.5 meters (356 feet), 88.4 meters (290 feet) long and will
be 43.6 meters (143 feet) tall. It will have a mass of nearly
453.6 metric tons (1 million pounds) and will provide living space
for up to seven astronauts and scientists. The pressurized living
and working space aboard the completed station will be more than
1303 cubic meters (46,000 cubic feet), roughly equivalent to the
passenger cabin volume of two 747 jetliners.
- CNN
City in Space The CNN page on the ISS is a great resource
for information. It has an Interactive Space Suit, A clickable
ISS, Construction Calendar, Space Station Partners, and an inside
Mission Control information.
- Discovery.com
International Space Station The discovery web site is
loaded full of more information on the ISS. That have a nice timeline
for when modules will be launched and when events will occur on
the station.
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