Space Station ISS

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This page is about the International Space Station

1 Construction
2 Launch Vehicles
3 ref

Construction

http://i.imgur.com/eWUrZuZ.gifv

ISS Assembly Time-Lapse Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kOAroNNAo

The ISS project has been going on since 1998, and in this short time-lapse animation, you can see how the whole thing was built up until today, with last module planned for delivery in 2015. The space station is HUGE and measures over 100 meters in length, 75 meters in width, and weigh over 400 tons! Read more at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/#qhq2Yp9FxmR5LE58.99

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/Building_the_International_Space_Station3

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Launch Vehicles

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Images

SpaceX Dragon delivers groceries and Christmas presents to space station. The space station’s six astronauts were getting a little low on supplies. That’s because the previous supply ship – owned by another company – was destroyed in an October launch explosion. Nasa scrambled to get replacement equipment aboard Dragon, as did schoolchildren who rustled up new science projects. Then Dragon was stalled a month by rocket snags; it should have reached the space station well before Christmas. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/12/spacex-dragon-groceries-christmas-presents-space-station?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Soyuz

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Russian Progress is an unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft

Progress M-27M mission. The Progress M-27M spacecraft is the second Russian cargo vehicle to fly to the International Space Station, ISS, in 2015 to re-supply crew onboard the outpost. It was also the 150th Progress spacecraft and the 59th Russian cargo flight to the ISS, known as P59. The mission ran into severe problems immediately after reaching orbit. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-m27m.html#accident

http://www.spaceflight101.com/progress-spacecraft-information.html

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