All other pieces were delivered by the Space Shuttle. Russian modules launched and docked by their rockets. The assembly of the International Space Station is a great event in space architecture. The components are made from stainless steel, titanium, aluminum and copper. The ISS components was manufactured in various factories all over the world, and were all shipped into the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center for last stages of manufacturing, machine assembly and launch processing. It was planned to combine the proposed space stations of all participating space agencies: NASA's Space Station Freedom, Russia's Mir-2 (the successor to the Mir Space Station, the core of which is now Zvezda) and ESA's Columbus that was planned to be a stand-alone spacelab. This project was first announced in 1993 and was called Space Station Alpha. administration officials to start negotiations with international partners Europe, Russia, Japan and Canada in the early 1990s in order to build a truly international space station. The end of the Space Race prompted the U.S. It never left the drawing board and, with the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, it was cancelled.
In the early 1980s, NASA planned Space Station Freedom as a counterpart to the Soviet Salyut and Mir space stations. Other nations such as Brazil, Italy, and China also work with the ISS through cooperation with other countries.īuilding the ISS began in 1998, when Russian and American space modules were joined together. The station is a joint project among several areas of the world: the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The last part, a Bigelow module was added in 2016. It was put together in Low Earth orbit up until 2011, but other bits have been added since then. The International Space Station ( ISS) is a space station, a very large satellite that people can live in for several months at a time.
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