Many labs, owned by multiple nations. This is a research vessel owned by the international community for progressing science on earth and in space.
They, the international community, pushed their contributions up into space and docked with the space station. This is a science vessel that multiple nations have added to. It will always be a multi nation venture.
Basically, they build the space station on the ground first, then they break it into parts small enough to fit in the shuttle, and reassemble it in space. They are still making improvements on the space station today.
To deliver parts to the ISS(international space station).
Getting a space station in space is just like a construction site on Earth. the only thing different is you have to get the parts up into space with a shuttle. In the shuttle, there is a big loading dock to put parts in. This is right behind the cockpit. Its sort of like a pickup truck that will go to space. Then, when you get up there, you start to build onto the amount of parts that you piece together. This is done (most likely) in a long span of time because it costs approximately $10,000 to send a pound into space.
Yes, the Russians plan to build a new station consisting of parts from the ISS called the OPESK station. The U.S also plans to buid a commercial space station called the Bigelow Commercial Space Station (BCSS) in 2014. The chineese also plan to build a space station as well.
Yes it is and still will be in 2011 and later but we are still connecting other parts today in 2011!
A lot of astronauts have served on the International Space Station. Supplies of food and other necessities are brought for the astronauts. As the space station is still undergoing construction, additional parts and modules are brought up to it. A lot of experiments are done on it, so equipment and necessary materials to conduct those experiments are brought to the space station.
the missions vary from taking satellites into space or parts for the ISS (international space station) or repair jobs on existing satellites
No, the Salut 1 was not the first space station. The first space station was the Soviet space station Salyut 1, which was launched in 1971.
A space station is a satellite.
It is named the International Space Station or ISS.
Canada is not in space, so therefore there is no space station in Canada. Canada does have an arm on the International Space Station in space.