The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit
https://apnews.com/article/international-space-station-nasa-b9d0e23a04c0c047887b3d7eeef65c9f
The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit
https://apnews.com/article/international-space-station-nasa-b9d0e23a04c0c047887b3d7eeef65c9f
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The ISS orbits earth 16 times per day. That’s 146.000 orbits (or sunsets or sunrises) in 25 years (not including leap year) totalling 6.211.278.000km travelled at an altitude of 400km.
And Asimov and Heinlein (and most likely other early SciFi writers) had men living **on the moon** long before today.
I watched Exp-1 launch from Baikonur in person. Memorable day for sure.
There have been times in the past 25 years where it felt like we had people living in space *just for the sake of having people living in space* and it’s kind of an unpleasant thing for me to think about. Like it was some laundry list item
I remember when they first opened up the ISS, their press announcement said that this is the start of permanent human presence in space, as if we will never not have any people in space from that point on. Now we’re talking about abandoning the ISS with the only possible option being China’s space station to extend that streak and it’s not even a sure thing. That’s quite disappointing, isn’t it.