The international Space
Station (ISS for short) begins to be built in 1998. Although it has now been 14
years since the start of its construction it has no definite date of completion
as new technologies allow more devices to their development.
The scheme of structure
a space station was conceived in the early 80's when America learned about
building a similar platform by the then Soviet Union. It was not until the mid
90's the United States finally achieved a coherent technically and
economically, it required the cooperation of other countries each of which
contribute to the best of the technology that had, was well as reached
agreements with 15 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Presently the station
is operational phase but 100% of its infrastructure built, it is planned that
by the end of 2010 the station will have 100% of its infrastructure in orbit.
The final design includes U.S. research laboratories, European research and
collaboration among all countries in areas ranging from studies on the
crystallization of proteins, through the effects of air pollution and water,
the environmental performance of the Earth and life on minimum gravities.
within current years
the station has caused some controversy due mainly to the start of the
so-called "space tourism" so much so that there is currently a
project under study that you plan to enable a "hotel" in the space
for tourists to pay a tour (provided that the minimum price would be about 10
million U.S. dollars).
By 2010 the
International Space Station will have the following characteristics:
Width: 108 meters
Length: 80 meters
Mass: 454 000 kg
Crew Size: 7 or more
Laboratories: 6
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