The construction of the ISS initiated the sending of 20 November 1998 on the Earth orbit by a Russian Proton rocket built in Russia, but funded by the US unit residential research Zaria.
6 December of the same year to Zarii attached brought by the US space shuttle connecting module Unity, and by ongoing until 2011 further expansion of the ISS was expanded to the present size of 88 to 108 meters and a weight of over 450 tons.
The construction and operation of existing cost a total of $ 100 billion, which was financed primarily the United States.
Uninterrupted stay next crew to the ISS runs from November 2000. On board the station has hosted a total of 221 people from 18 countries, including seven commercial space tourists. The current six-cast ISS make Americans Timothy Kopra and Jeff Williams, a Briton Tim Peake and Russian Yuri Malenchenko, Alexei Owczynin and Oleg Skripoczka.
Over 100 thousand. Lap Earth station has traveled a distance 4.254 billion kilometers which is slightly smaller than the distance from Earth to Neptune.
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