The International Space Station

What’s inside

• Which module was the first component of the International Space Station launched into orbit?
• Since which year has the International Space Station been continuously inhabited?
• Which device is primarily used to capture high-resolution images of Earth from the ISS?
• What is the main scientific reason experiments on the ISS are conducted in microgravity?
• The International Space Station orbits in [____] Earth orbit, at an altitude of roughly 400 kilometers.
• The ISS has been continuously occupied by astronauts since [____].
• The robotic arm installed on the ISS for moving equipment and assisting with construction is called [____].
• The ISS completes one orbit around Earth in approximately [____].