7 Mind-Blowing Facts About The International Space Station
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Check out some mind blowing facts about the International Space Station as seen in Channel 4's "Live from space" program. 1. It took an astounding 136 space flights on seven different types of launch vehicles to build the international space station. The first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20th November 1998 and was called Zarya. 2. The ISS as it's referred to flies at around 4.791 miles per second, that's 17,248 miles per hour. It competes nearly 16 orbits a day and is fast enough to go to the Moon and back in under 24 hours. 3. The ISS is so big it could span the area of an American football field, the complex includes two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window. On completion it has more space than a six bedroom house. 4. The International Space Station is not only an orbiting laboratory, but also a space port for a variety of international spacecraft, there have been 89 Russian launches, 37 Space Shuttle launches, 3 flights by SpaceX's Dragon, 3 Japanese HTVs and 3 European ATVs. 5. The first expedition was in October 2000 and lasted for nearly 137 days. Since then over 200 people from 15 countries have visited the ISS and a 174 space walks have been completed, totalling almost 1,100 hours, or nearly 46 days. 6. According to NASA, there are 52 computers controlling the International Space Station. The US segment have 1.5 million lines of flight software code run on 44 computers communicating via 100 data networks and transferring 400,000 signals. 7. The International Space Station robotic arm was launched in April 2001 and is called Canadarm2. It is 57.7 feet long when fully extended and has seven motorized joints. This arm is capable of handling large payloads and helped build the entire orbiting complex. Attributes- "Tempting Secrets" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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what is the point of the iSS? y is nasa getting rid of it? lol. fake as shit.
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why do you have picture of a satern V and skylab?
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the earth is flat and the iss is pure fake propaganda
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Anyone who thinks its not real is just ignorant and clueless
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Like clockwork it passes over my house almost every night love it
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Holy SHIT has mankind have some amazing things under its belt. I mean, holy fuck.
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Have they done any experiments besides folding their arms and laughing at the cameras.
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These are all CGI photos. The Space Station is a NASA hoax.
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sounds like a poor danny dyler impression lol
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your commentary is very agressive
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why is the first photo skylab?
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unbe lie vable
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another thing is the wight lifting in the gym floats because if it was attached to the space station I might tear it apart ..... crazy right.
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Fact number one should have been, The ISS is as Fake as NASA's Moon Landings and all their satellites, none of them are real.
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Why the fuck did u show the Skylab?
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Haha, you failed on fact One.
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Eric Dubay Shared on Google+ · 6 months ago ~ The Earth is Not Moving! The heliocentric theory, literally “flying” in the face of direct observation, experimental evidence and common sense, maintains that the ball-Earth is spinning around its axis at 1,000 miles per hour, revolving around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour, while the entire solar system rotates around the Milky Way galaxy at 500,000 miles per hour, and the Milky Way speeds through the expanding Universe at over 670,000,000 miles per hour, yet no one in history has ever felt a thing! We can feel the slightest breeze on a summer’s day, but never one iota of air displacement from these incredible speeds! Heliocentrists claim with a straight face that their ball-Earth spins at a constant velocity dragging the atmosphere in such a manner as to perfectly cancel all centrifugal, gravitational, and inertial forces so we do not feel the tiniest bit of motion, perturbation, wind or air resistance! Such back-peddling, damage-control reverse-engineered explanations certainly stretch the limits of credibility and the imagination, leaving much to be desired by discerning minds. If the Earth and atmosphere are constantly revolving Eastwards at 1,000 mph, how is it that clouds, wind, and weather patterns casually and unpredictably go every which way, often travelling in opposing directions simultaneously? Why can we feel the slightest Westward breeze but not the Earth’s incredible supposed 1,000 mph Eastward spin!? And how is it that the magic velcro of gravity is strong enough to drag miles of Earth’s atmosphere along, but weak enough to allow little bugs, birds, clouds and planes to travel freely unabated in any direction?
We must take it on faith as mathematical proof doesn't exist.
N.A.S.A. on Speed:
The Earth's orbital speed around the sun is 67,000 m.p.h.
The sun's orbital speed around the galaxy is 450,000 m.p.h.
The speed of the ground beneath your feet, as a result of the Earth's
rotation is 600 m.p.h. at the latitude of Sheffield (53 degrees);
1,000 m.p.h. at the equator.
The Earth travels 584 million miles per year (one trip around the sun); that's
1,600,000 miles per day; 66,667 miles traveled each hour
On Earth globe there's a 769-mile hump of curvature between California & Hawaii. -
Ah realization that it was an alienate ah seen in my threshold because bagman and ah was in civilization our whole life the boss in a threshold story beyond magnetization we aint going to be able to perceive you only a spaceman can ah have reason to believe the man werent self up in here but its a verbalization story the core its the soul of the planet right internalization on the threshold issue alienation was here socialization bagman an friends hybridization was know in a way the beginning of the box outermost space the interdependent system me an bagman was running a level by Shinty
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At the first Mars Society Confreence in Bulder in '98, I saw a talk by Gemini/Apollo astronaut John Young. He spoke well of Solar panels in spacecraft and stations to date: Open them up and face the Sun, and you've got power. He then said that the ISS has Solar panels too. What do they need to produce power?
Software.
In his book "Entering Space", Zubrin details the election of the present SISS. One set of designs used rockets to lift big volume4and payloads to set it up. Skylab and several Salyut modules have been fown successfully this way. Other designes used things like Shuttle-C and other HLVs to lift big segments. The final option, used Shuttle and existing Soyuz/Progress-sized payloads from existing Russian boosters. It was selected because it spread the most money around the most congressional districts as possible. Being the most complex, it cost the most with the most launches (and the contractor's Golden Goose, the Shuttle doing most, giving it a legally mandated launch manifest of 40+ flights) and made lots of costly EVAs to tinker the small modules and payloads together.
Heinlein said that an elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. I'd say a Diplodocus is the NASA verson, but it's got to have 5 heads, and can't take any action unless at least 3 of them agree.
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