How the International Space Station Works
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan envisioned a permanent space station. Today we know it as the International Space Station. HowStuffWorks goes aboard.
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In 1984, President Ronald Reagan envisioned a permanent space station. Today we know it as the International Space Station. HowStuffWorks goes aboard.
The only other action is to fund it. do you think it's a possibility that by the end of the decade, we could see multiple space stations? possibly. china are building a space station at the moment. that's likely not going to go. it's likely that other countries will be putting space stations, if not private companies. so it's likely we will see other ventures. ii companies. so it's likely we will see other ventures.— companies. so it's likely we will see other ventures. if there were other ventures, and _ see other ventures. if there were other ventures, and you're - see other ventures. if t...
Wenn die wohl teuerste Putzkolonne der Welt im wohl teuersten menschlichen Bauwerk historisch teuren Kaffee trinkt - dann geht es um Raumfahrer auf der ISS. Die verursachen nicht nur Kosten, sondern auch Extra-Sternschnuppen - Schlüpfer-Sternschnuppen.
>> incredible moment. we talked about what it means for those of us who are watching. talk to me historically. when we look back on this in a few years and we say watch as this splashdown happened, all civilian spacex flight, what is it we're going to be remembering and what is it we're going to be asking? >> i think it's just the first of many future flights that will happen and the analogy of discovering the new world, the next frontier and really lower orbit is our next frontier. we're going to be building additional space stations over time. we're going to send people to work and live in s...
I am. so it's happening quite quickly. just in day-to-day life, you sort of take it for granted. but we have gone from ships that could just barely do it, and several of which killed the astronauts on board where it required the best test pilots in the world just to be able to make these machines work to now to the point where the technology is so advanced, there has been so much money put boo the development of it that four people with very little training can have the incredible experience of going around the world nearly 50 times where the machine took care of all of the complex stuff. and ...