Around the World 100,000 Times
The International Space Station is a microgravity laboratory
in which an international crew of six people live and work while traveling at a
speed of five miles per second (or 17,500 miles per hour), orbiting Earth every
90 minutes.
Monday, May 16, marks the International Space Station’s
100,000th orbit!
That’s more than 2,643,342,240 miles traveled! Which is also
like 10 round trips to Mars, OR nearly the distance to Neptune! The space
station has been in orbit for over 17 years, and during that time, over 1,922
research investigations have been performed. More than 1,200 scientific results
publications have been produced as a result.
Important studies like the VEGGIE experiment, which is
working to grow plants in microgravity, and the Twin’s Study, which is studying
the impacts of microgravity on the human body, are helping us on our journey to
Mars. Using this unique orbiting laboratory as a place to conduct research is
helping us learn important things for future deep space missions.
There have even been 222 different people that have visited
the space station. This includes the current crew that is working and living on
orbit.
Did you know that the space station is the third brightest
object in the sky? If you know when and where to look up, you can spot it on
your own
Find out when and where to look up HERE
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