This is an artist's drawing of the space station. You can see the solar arrays such as the ones Endeavor will bring in December to the Alpha space station.
Click on image for full size
Courtesy of NASA
Life Found on the ISS
News story originally written on November 20, 2000
Three men are living on the the International Space Station (ISS). They've been living there for about 2 weeks now. For the next 4 months, Russian astronauts Yuri P. Gidzenko and
Sergei K. Krikalev and American commander,
William M. Shepherd, will call the ISS their home. Would you like to live in space for 4 months?
The ISS has been officially named Alpha.
The Alpha station is now the size of three school buses in length. In time it will be the length of a football field. It will become the brightest object in the night sky next to the Sun and the Moon.
The Shuttle Endeavour is going to visit the space station December 2, 2000. The shuttle will bring supplies to the station.
You might also be interested in:
It's time to add onto the International Space Station (ISS). The Destiny laboratory was launched on the shuttle on February 7, 2001. Astronauts will perform spacewalks to connect the laboratory to the
...more
There is a large space station circling Earth right now. It is called the International Space Station (ISS for short). Astronauts live and work in the ISS. Sixteen countries, including the United States,
...more
It was another exciting and frustrating year for the space science program. It seemed that every step forward led to one backwards. Either way, NASA led the way to a great century of discovery. Unfortunately,
...more
The Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on October 29th at 2:19 p.m. EST. The sky was clear and the weather was great. This was the America's 123rd manned space mission. A huge
...more
Scientists found a satellite orbiting the asteroid, Eugenia. This is the second one ever! A special telescope allows scientists to look through Earth's atmosphere. The first satellite found was Dactyl.
...more
The United States wants Russia to put the service module in orbit! The module is part of the International Space Station. It was supposed to be in space over 2 years ago. Russia just sent supplies to the
...more
A coronal mass ejection (CME) happened on the Sun last month. The material that was thrown out from this explosion passed the ACE spacecraft. ACE measured some exciting things as the CME material passed
...more
