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Facts about The ISS (1-10)
1. The creation of the ISS involved 16 nations: the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
2. 65 mph may be a standard speed limit on highways on Earth, but in its orbit the ISS travels at a rate of five miles per second.
This means that the ISS orbits the entire planet Earth once every 90 minutes.
3. Composed of hundreds of major and minor components, the International Space Station is by far the largest manmade object in space.
The ISS has a pressurized volume of 32,333 cubic feet, the same as the Boeing 747. It is four times bigger than the Russian space station MIR and five times bigger than the American station Skylab.
4. ISS is the most expensive item ever made. The cost of the ISS is estimated at over $120 billion.
5. There are only two bathrooms in the entire station. The urine of both crew members and laboratory animals is filtered back into the station's drinking water supply, so at least the astronauts will never run out of drinking water.
6. You are in space does not mean that viruses cannot enter your computer. 52 computers on the ISS have been infected with the virus more than once. The first virus was W32.Gammima.AG.
Which was used to steal the passwords of online video games on Earth. It wasn't a big deal, though - NASA responded by calling the virus a "nuisance."
7. ISS is a major hub of space traffic. In June of 2014, four different international spacecraft docked there, including the Progress M-21M cargo spacecraft, which lifted off from the station on June 9 after a six-month mission of dropping food, fuel and supplies. had departed.
8. The ISS is probably one of the only places where you can actually smell space. A former ISS passenger has described how a "metal-ionization-type odor" occurs in an area where the pressure is equalized between the station and other docking craft.
9. Currently, the ISS is the third brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. Eagle-eyed stargazers can spot it too, if they see close enough - it looks like a speeding plane.
If you can't see it, NASA has an Internet website service called Spot The Station that gives you information about when the ISS will pass through your location.
If still you are not able to see, then you can watch the live video feed of International Space Station broadcasted by NASA on the Internet.
10. As we know that human body starts losing muscle and bone mass in zero gravity environment.
Therefore all astronauts aboard the ISS must work at least two hours a day to maintain normal Earth-based physical health.
11. The electrical systems on the ISS include wires up to 8 miles long. It is longer than the entire perimeter of New York City's Central Park.
12. On 2 September 2017, Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the record for the most 665 days in space.
13. Oxygen in the ISS is made by a process called "Electrolysis".
In this process, water molecules are split into hydrogen and oxygen gas using the electrical current generated by a solar panel on the International Space Station.
14. Space crews have been traveling continuously in the ISS since November 2000. This means that it has not been vacant for the last two decades.
15. Do you know that you cannot eat biscuits and bread in the space station? If you are fond of bread and biscuits and you also want to go to the space station, then you will have to forget bread and biscuits.
This is because the space craft has zero gravity conditions and the small pieces emanating from these food items can get stuck in the small buttons in the space craft which can invite a very big problem.
16. We all know that everything has a definite end whether it is human, animal or any object.
Everything gets old with time because it is the law of nature.
But do you know that the International Space Station i.e. ISS will also end one day? At present, it has been allowed to operate till 2024.
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