What can we learn from 20 years of International Learning Space Station

In a time when most of the devices on average, last only a few years, it is encouraging to note that one of the technological tools komplexesten is still strong construction. On 20 November, the International Space Station (ISS) has reached a milestone two decades since the launch of the first module. In addition, only a feat of engineering is the ISS as all too rare example in this era of hyper-partisan of what can be achieved when our triumphs desire to cooperate across our divisions. E ‘was built on this day in 1998 that aerospace engineers from former rival Russia and the United States celebrated the elevator of the Moscow unit, funded by the United States Zarya ( “Sunrise”), from the Kazakh Baikonur took off . At 11.40 Cloudy Friday, the first component of the ISS punches its way into orbit, where it served as the basis of an international space program, which continues today. But Zarya and even the ISS as we know, can never bring Russia on board the design of the station, the remains of Cold War hostility and bitterness SpaceRace have not existed had been put aside. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States-Russia exploited specialist space industry but idle to help to bring the cost low and speed up in 1984 Ronald Reagan’s vision of a “permanently manned space station.” In his bold attempt of a structure inhabited 250 miles above the earth to create long found common ground opponents. continued US-Russian team in the final frontier to forge relationships with the first team of the ISS. Astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko boarded on November 2, 2000. At that time, there was not much to the station was orbiting once every 90 minutes, the earth. But in the next two decades, space agencies, based in 15 countries, including Japan, Canada, France, Germany and Spain, the SpringBoard alien turned into a giant with 15 modular pressurized components. Supplements like appendage robotic Canadarm2 in Canada and the laboratory module Kibo ISS Japan have helped to almost the size of a football field grow. Continually launch the giant with a multinational team of six orbiting laboratory also count on intercontinental cooperation. According to NASA visited, 230 people from 18 countries. It is a testament to human progress that we are now in an era in which people who have reached this month of adulthood, not a single day without a human life in space. Despite his triumphs, the staggering cost of the ISS has been a source of contention: estimates, the bill between $100 and $150 billion. Many argue that the money could be better spent to improve conditions on Earth. It did not help that it was not a lot of scientific information from on-board experiments with commercial or social applications back on solid ground. However, research has ambitious, similar as different substances and compounds cells, tissues and fluids react when freed from the constraints of gravitational forces. Many studies have examined the reaction of the human body in long-duration space flight to understand a field of vital importance if we are to survive the day trip 500-odd to and from Mars. The information obtained from exercises like two record years of stay astronauts on the station is essential to help people to help push the boundaries of space exploration. But it is the role of the station as the most peaceful scientific cooperation in history that deserves the ovation. Space research is an enterprise deadly and costly, and multinational partnerships carry the load. The cooperation between the emission control must obtain missions helped. From the NASA Space Shuttle program in 2011, the Russian Soyuz spaceship deposed began traveling to sell. cosmic cooperation on have also ensured that the station will not be completely closed under diplomatic standoffs, channels of communication between ISS Nations. During the crisis in the Crimea in 2014, when Russian-US. Relations have been entangled in animus and sanctions, continue to cooperate NASA and Roskosmos to the space station, where they had both money and lives are at stake. And even during the crisis, although a Russian official suggested that the United States could jump-Soyuz and get a trampoline for the ISS when a potential loss of ammonia American astronauts to the same official endangered the team ensured that the section Russian could stay as long as needed station. While governments their interest and budget on the Moon, Mars and beyond remains fixed, the future of the 20 years of ISS nebula. NASA has committed to funding only until 2024. It ‘was the station preliminary deorbiting and crashes into the Pacific Ocean or the keys to the private sector. Whatever their fate is, as an emissary ISS’Rolle the one-of-a-kind for the international community must not be forgotten.
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