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40 unusual facts about International Space Station


1997 State of the Union Address

President Clinton discussed numerous topics in the address, including the environment, the International Space Station, welfare, crime and relations with NATO and China.

AbsInt

In April 2008, Astrée was able to prove the absence of any runtime error in a C version of the automatic docking software of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) used for transporting payloads to the International Space Station.

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

The last produced Super Guppy remains in service: an SGT flown by NASA (currently used to ferry components for the International Space Station and Project Orion).

Al Qöyawayma

In 2002, astronaut John Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw tribe, took one of Qöyawayma's ceramic pots into orbit aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-113, which docked with the International Space Station.

AstroTown

The book depicts a future where humankind has left the Earth due to global warming, and they have decided to live in the International Space Station.

Background radiation

Astronauts in low orbits, such as in the International Space Station or the Space Shuttle, are partially shielded by the magnetic field of the Earth, but also suffer from the Van Allen radiation belt which accumulates cosmic rays and results from the earths magnetic field.

Barbara Prey

She has painted the x-43, the world's fastest aircraft; a commemorative work for the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy titled The Columbia Tribute; a rendition of the International Space Station; and a painting of the Space Shuttle Discovery titled Shuttle Discovery: Return to Flight.

Blue Bell Creameries

Blue Bell sells its ice cream directly in only 22 states, mostly in the Southern United States, although Blue Bell ice cream has also been eaten aboard the International Space Station and at Camp David.

Casper Mountain

Casper Mountain is such in length that it's visible from Space, at the altitude that the ISS and Space Shuttle fly.

Charles Camarda

Camarda served as a back-up crew member for Expedition 8 of the International Space Station.

Constance Adams

Among other projects, Adams was involved in developing the Lockheed-Martin design of an inflatable module for the International Space Station.

Dennis Tito

In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station.

Diederik Korteweg

An experiment conducted aboard the International Space Station in 2003 (Miscible Fluids in Microgravity) was mounted to prove one of Korteweg's theories.

Emanuele Viscuso

Thanks to his proposal and support, on board the Space Shuttle Discovery, Node 2 - the interconnecting unit developed in Italy by Thales Alenia Space - and the ESA, the Italian Paolo Nespoli and other astronauts started their journey towards the International Space Station (ISS) bringing with them delicious Italian food to offer to the other astronauts on the Station in orbit.

Flight suit

The now common "shirt-sleeve environment" of the orbiting Space Shuttle and International Space Station has resulted in much more casual attire during spaceflight such as shorts and polo shirts.

Jamaluddin Jarjis

While serving as Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Jamaluddin oversaw the Angkasawan program, which resulted in Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becoming the first Malaysian in space on October 10, 2007, when he blasted off to the International Space Station on board Soyuz TMA-11.

James Neihouse

Neihouse has trained more than 120 NASA astronauts and 10 Russian cosmonauts on 20 space shuttle flights to film in space aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

Joseph R. Tanner

Tanner’s third mission was STS-97 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour (November 30 to December 11, 2000), the fifth Space Shuttle mission dedicated to the assembly of the International Space Station.

Kasnia

He manipulates Kasnia's substantial contribution to an International Space Station to mount an orbital weapon.

Lester R. Stone, Jr.

His mother Doris lent the medal to U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock to take on his June 2010 launch to the International Space Station.

Lori Garver

While providing support to a client who was paying for a trip to space, she attempted to secure her own sponsored space flight, as "the first Soccer Mom" aboard the Russian Soyuz vehicle to the International Space Station.

Marc Herring

Other pioneering achievements in the arts and advertising include producing the first television commercial created on board the International Space Station, organizing worldwide broadcast coverage of the reentry of the MIR space station and temporarily illuminating vast landscapes with live, digital multimedia projections.

Martin Sjardijn

a database and a proposal for an artproject inside the International Space Station.

Mary Gaulden Jagger

Gaulden served on the Committee on Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council from 1989–1999, studying (among other things) the environment on the International Space Station.

Oleg Skripochka

On April 12, 2011, Skripochka was awarded the titles of Hero of the Russian Federation and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism in the implementation of long-duration space flight on the International Space Station.

Paul W. Richards

Richards was initially assigned to the Computer Branch working on software for the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

Peter Wisoff

During the 13-day flight, the seven member crew attached the Z1 Truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 to the International Space Station using Discovery’s robotic arm and performed four space walks to configure these elements.

Plug door

Currently, plug doors are used only on the outer hatch doors on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as well as on the hatch between the Orbital Module and Descent Module on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

RAF Feltwell

This data along with that from other systems was used to adjust the orbits of various satellites and manned vessels (for instance the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station) to reduce the risk of on-orbit collisions.

Reinhold Ewald

He performed experiments in biomedical and material sciences, and carried out operational tests in preparation for the International Space Station.

Robert E. Cramer

In the House, Cramer was a tireless supporter of the International Space Station and a leading advocate for spending increases in missile defense, as Huntsville has long been a center for research and development of these two projects, as Redstone Arsenal—located in the district—is home of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Roger K. Crouch

On loan from MIT to NASA Headquarters as the Senior Scientist for the International Space Station since 2000; prior to that, on loan from MIT as the Senior Scientist for the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences, NASA-HQ, 1998-2000; crew training, flight and post-flight activities 1996-1998; Lead Scientist of the Microgravity Space and Applications Division since 1985-1996.

Runglish

The term "runglish" was popularized in 2000 as a name for one of the languages aboard the International Space Station.

Steven Sandler

He spent 6 years modeling power electronics for the International Space Station, including the US, Canadian, and Russian components.

Talgat Musabayev

His third spaceflight was a short duration visiting mission to the International Space Station, which also carried the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito.

The Space Within US

#* Played live as a "wake-up" call to the crew of the International Space Station nearing the end of the Anaheim, California concert on 12 November 2005 (13 November on the east coast of the United States).

Umpqua Research Company

URC designs and builds water disinfection and purification subsystems for the Space Shuttle, extra-vehicular activity, the International Space Station, and flight experiments.

Wigbert Fehse

There, he and his teams at ESA and in industry developed basic techniques and technologies for automated rendezvous and docking of spacecraft, which are being applied in international space projects, such as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the first West-European spacecraft that docked automatically to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2008.

William Oefelein

The seven-member crew on this 12-day mission continued construction of the International Space Station by adding the P5 spacer truss segment during the first of four spacewalks.

Yuli Berkovich

Yuli Berkovich (1944 - 2012) was a scientist who has performed experiments with seed germination in zero gravity, among others, upon the International Space Station.


Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

AMS-02 was delivered to the International Space Station on May 19, 2011 as part of station assembly flight ULF6 on shuttle flight STS-134, commanded by Mark Kelly.

Bagel

In modern times, Canadian-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff is the first person known to have taken a batch of bagels into space on his 2008 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Filippo Ongaro

From 2001 to 2002 Ongaro worked at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia as a crew doctor, supporting in particular the flight to the International Space Station (ISS) of Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori.

Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D

In December 2010 via the Russian spacecraft Soyuz 25S, a European Space Agency astronaut brought the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 aboard the International Space Station.

Gilles Tran

2001-2002: helped create Reach for the Stars, the first 3D image rendered in space, rendered in POV-Ray on the International Space Station (April 25 - May 5, 2002) by astronaut Mark Shuttleworth.

Japanese rice fish

O. latipes returned to space in 2012, launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TMA-06M and housed in an aquarium aboard the International Space Station.

Living Planet Index

In a world first, the LPR 2012 was launched from space by astronaut André Kuipers in the International Space Station, in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

Macarthur Astronomy Forum

Dr Gregory Chamitoff, a NASA astronaut, is scheduled to speak about his experiences on the International Space Station on Wednesday 18th June.

MaSat-1

The center was tested on 31 March 2009 with the help of Charles Simonyi on board the International Space Station.

Memorial Museum of Astronautics

It has virtually tripled its original size and has added new sections dedicated to space programs worldwide, including the USA, Europe, China and the ISS.

Orion Lite

The intention of designing Orion Lite would be to provide a stripped down version of the Orion that will be available for missions to the International Space Station earlier than the more capable Orion, which is designed for longer duration missions to the Moon, Mars, Lagrange points, and Near Earth asteroids.

Proton-K

Thirty were launched in this configuration, with payloads including all of the Soviet Union's Salyut space stations, all Mir modules with the exception of the Docking Module, which was launched on the US Space Shuttle, and the Zarya and Zvezda modules of the International Space Station.

Reclaimed water

In 1998, NASA announced it had built a human waste reclamation bioreactor designed for use in the International Space Station and a manned Mars mission.

Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer device AMS-02, recently mounted on the International Space Station uses a RICH detector in combination with other devices to analyze cosmic rays.

Salyut 7

All Soviet and Russian space stations were equipped with automatic rendezvous and docking systems, from the first space station Salyut 1 using the IGLA system, to the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station using the Kurs system.

Sergey Ryazansky

He was launched to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft on September 25, 2013 alongside American astronaut Michael S. Hopkins and another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kotov.

Star trail

American astronaut Don Pettit recorded star trails with a digital camera from the International Space Station in earth orbit between April and June, 2012.

Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke

Afterwards, the ERNO/VFW descendant was active as the space infrastructure division of Astrium contributing parts to the European Ariane space booster system and the International Space Station.