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.