The Russian Zarya module floating in space seen from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1998. Zarya was the first module of the International Space Sation. Three weeks after its launch on 20 November 1998 Zarya was joined by the US Unity module.
The first two modules of the International Space Station were joined by the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Unity (foreground) was fixed to the payload bay of Endeavour, while the Shuttle's robotic arm was used to manoeuvre the Russian Zarya module into position on 6 December 1998.
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The International Space Station seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantison mission STS-106 following the arrival of the Russian Zvezda Service Module. From top to bottom are the modules Unity, Zarya, Zvezda and the Progress M1-3 supply spacecraft. During the course of the mission, the STS-106 crew readied the Station for permanent occupation for the arrival of its first residents, the three-man Expedition 1 crew, launched on Soyuz TM-31 on 31 October 2000.
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Expedition 1 crew in December 2000 about to eat oranges in the Zvezda module of the International Space Station. From left cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko NASA astronaut William Shepherd and cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev. Expedition 1 was the first crew to live on the International Space Station.
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The first ESA astronaut to live on the International Space Station, Umberto Guidoni, in the Zvezda Service Module after hatch opening and the STS-100 crew were reunited in space with the three members of the Expedition Two crew.
Umberto was a mission specialist on the STS-100 mission flown by Space ShuttleEndeavour to install the robotic arm Canadarm2.
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The International Space Station seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour after undocking. Endeavour undocked on December 2, 2002 as the two spacecraft flew over northwestern Australia. The Space Shuttle mission installed the P1 truss.
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ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, Expedition 13 Flight Engineer 2, works on a cooling line in the S1 truss of the International Space Station during a 5-hour, 54-minute spacewalk on 3 August 2006.
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The International Space Station as the STS-116 Space Shuttle Discoverymission undocked after the P5 truss section was added. During the mission the Station's electrical supply was rewired and the P6 solar array was retracted. This image was taken shortly after Space Shuttle Discovery undocked at 23:10 CET on 19 December 2006.
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Held by the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2, ESA's Columbus laboratory is moved from its transport position in Space Shuttle Atlantis' payload bay to the starboard side of the Harmony module of the International Space Station. Space Shuttle AtlantisSTS-122 mission was launched on 7 February 2008 with Columbus installation complete five days later.
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The International Space Station seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as it left the Space Station 11 June 2008. The 13-day STS-124 mission brought the Japanese Kibo laboaratory to the Space Station.
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The unpiloted Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) approaches the International Space Station. Once the HTV was in range, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk and ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Expedition 20 flight engineers, used the Station's robotic arm Canadarm2 (bottom right) to grab the cargo craft and attach it to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony node. The attachment was completed at 00:26 CEST on 18 September 2009. The Japanese space laboratory Kibo is at the top of this image.
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The Expedition 20 crew pose in the Harmony node of the International Space Station. Clockwise from top are ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, cosmonaut commander Gennady Padalka, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, May 2009.
This was the first permanent six-person crew to stay on the Station and the first time an astronaut from each Station partner was aboard.
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NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS-130 mission specialist, in his mission's third and last spacewalk to build and maintain the International Space Station on 17 February 2010. During the five-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, Patrick and astronaut Robert Behnken removed the insulation blankets and launch restraint bolts from each of the Cupola observatory's seven windows.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station during mission STS-132 in 2010. On the right is ESA's space laboratory Columbus.
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This image of the International Space Station with the docked Europe's ATVJohannes Kepler and Space ShuttleEndeavour was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on 24 May 2011. The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the ISS from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev, ESA's Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Από την εκτόξευση της πρώτης μονάδας Zarya το 1998, ο Διεθνής Διαστημικός Σταθμός έχει αυξηθεί στο μέγεθος ενός γηπέδου ποδοσφαίρου, με τρία εργαστήρια, ένα γυμναστήριο και ένα παρατηρητήριο.
Η πρώτη αμερικανική μονάδα, Unity, συνδέθηκε με τη Zarya τρεις εβδομάδες αργότερα, ενώ ακολούθησε η δεύτερη ρωσική μονάδα, Zvezda, το 2000. Το πρώτο πλήρωμα που ξεκίνησε τη διαρκή κατάληψη του Σταθμού, το Expedition - 1, έφτασε το 2000. Δύο δικτυώματα είχαν εγκατασταθεί το 2000 για να κρατήσουν τα μεγάλα ηλιακά φτερά που είναι χαρακτηριστικά του τροχιακού φυλακίου.
Το αμερικανικό εργαστήριο Destiny έφτασε το 2001. Από το 2002 έως το 2007 εγκαταστάθηκαν τα ηλιακά φτερά που συνδέουν τους κόμβους και τα λιμάνια πρόσδεσης. Δύο εργαστηριακές μονάδες έφθασαν το 2008: η Columbus της ESA και η Kibo της Ιαπωνίας. Το παρατηρητήριο Cupolaεγκαταστάθηκε το 2010.
Ο Σταθμός είναι ένα πλήρες τροχιακό εργαστήριο έρευνας και τεχνολογίας, και χρησιμοποιείται για τον έλεγχο των συστημάτων και των επιχειρήσεων για τη μελλοντική εξερεύνηση του διαστήματος. Οι δραστηριότητες αυτές συμβάλλουν στη βελτίωση της ποιότητας της ζωής στη Γη με την αύξηση της επιστημονικής γνώσης μας, μέσα από την έρευνα "έξω από αυτόν τον κόσμο".
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