International Space Station

A look inside ISS

Hey Explorers !

Lets go onboard the ISS and look into some fascinating facts that are shared by Astronauts.

But first I have something to share, a beautiful time-lapse of ISS around the Earth.

This clip was shared by Yusaku MZ, our very dear tourist cosmonaut from Japan :)

such a great job. He has also shared his whole journey to ISS & back on his different social media platforms; links for the same are shared in this blog.

Lets get back to some exciting Space & ISS facts !

• Astronauts on ISS witness 16 sunrises & 16 sunsets everyday; one every 90 mins.
• ISS is the most expensive object ever built at $150 billion.
• A sample of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree was sent to ISS to defy gravity :)
• ISS is a  house for Astronauts & Cosmonauts that travels at 17,500 mph.

• Astronauts become two inches taller in space.
• On ISS, the water treatment plant is so advance that it recycles & treats all water waste including urine & turns it into drinking water.
•  Russians are called Cosmonauts & others - Astronauts.
• ISS is about the  size of a FIFA football field.

• Sun appears white, while you are in space.
• First living mammals to orbit moon were tortoises, they were sent to test a Russian Space Probe.
•  While being  in a spacesuit you can't whistle.
• The  farthest distance from Earth an astronaut has ever travelled was during the Apollo 13 emergency. 
• On ISS everyone has to exercise 2 hours daily.
• A boomerang will return to you in absence of gravity on ISS !
• The total wt of ISS is 925,000 pounds.
•  Astronauts onboard ISS can vote !
• From August 10, 2015 astronauts are eating food grown on ISS.

• While floating in lunar orbit, Astronaut AL Worden was 2,235 miles around 3,600 k away from his companion astronauts, making him the most isolated human being ever.
• The ISS is constantly in the state of free fall, same for the astronauts inside.

• Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks.
• From ISS night & day on Earth appears to last only 45 mins.
• The longest spacewalk ever lasted 9 hours, & the preparations & post spacewalk procedures takes it to 12.5 hours.
• Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent nearly 438 consecutive days aboard the Mir Space Station, & still holds the record for longest single human spaceflight.
• All people aboard the ISS must know English & Russian.
• SpaceX's crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first private mission to take astronauts to ISS - NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley & Robert Behnken.
• In oct, 2021 a Russian actress & director visited ISS to shoot the first film completely made on ISS.
• William Shatner; our star Trek star became the oldest person in space at 90 years & 205 days when he travelled on a space tourist sub-orbital flight on Blue Origin's New Shephard on oct 12, 2021.
• Blue Origins fist flight carrying paying customers broke 4 world records. - Oldest person in space, youngest person in space, first sub-orbital flight with paying  customers & first siblings in space at same time.

A view of sub-orbital flight captured by Astronauts aboard ISS

• Untill now more than 250 individuals have been on the International Space Station, including the expedition 66 astronauts; currently onboard ISS.
•  & more than 600 individuals from 37 countries have been to space.
• There has been astronauts on ISS science Nov 2, 2000.
• There are 13 people on ISS while writing this blog :) { quite crowded }

With these lets end today's blog !

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