NASA is celebrating this 25th anniversary of the establishment of the International Space Station, The program brings together international flight crews, multiple launch vehicles, globally distributed launch and flight operations, training, engineering and development facilities, communications networks, and an international scientific research community. On this day, the International Space Station’s first two modules, Zarya and Unity, joined the space shuttle Endeavor during its STS-88 mission. The shuttle’s Canadarm robotic arm reached out and grabbed Zarya, which had been in orbit for more than two weeks, before attaching it to Endeavor’s Unity module in its payload bay.
To commemorate this, NASA shared before and after photos of the International Space Station and wrote, “How it started, how it’s progressing. Today marks 25 years of operations aboard the International Space Station (@ISS). On December 6, 1998, the first two elements of the station, the Unity module and the Zarya module, were combined in low Earth orbit.
The report states that since November 2, 2000, humans have continuously lived and worked in orbital laboratories, bringing together international flight crews to conduct more than 3,300 research and educational surveys for the benefit of humanity. He added that he is doing so. “273 people from 21 countries visit the ISS, helping prepare for future human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond,” the American space agency wrote in an Instagram caption.
The first image, from more than 20 years ago, shows the space station in space. A view of the Space Station circa 2000 in the darkness of space. It consists of two cylindrical modules joined at their short ends. The Unity module on the left is the long cream-colored Zarya module on the right. “The solar panels of Zarya extend up and down from Zarya,” NASA said while describing the image.
Discussing the current space station, the U.S. government agency cited the station it saw during a flyaround by SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor after it disconnected from the space-facing port of the Harmony module on November 8, 2021. posted a photo of the application. , On each side he can see four sets of golden solar arrays, and three sets of different gray heat dissipation panels arranged upwards in an accordion shape. According to NASA, the entire spacecraft is about the size of a football field.
Meanwhile, the space station was officially approved by US President Ronald Reagan in 1984, and its budget was also approved by the US Congress. The station he designed from 1984 to 1993. Elements of the station were under construction in the United States, Canada, Japan, and throughout the United States. And Europe.
They also said the station would be functional for at least another seven years. “The planned lifespan of the ISS has been extended several times. Currently, several elements have exceeded the originally planned lifespan and are therefore being periodically analyzed to ensure that the station can continue to be habitable and operational.” “The International Space Station will continue to function as an orbital laboratory and outpost until at least 2030.” the agency said.