Watch as NASA celebrates 20 years of people dwelling on the International Space Station

                                      

The Previous day(2nd November) marks the 20th anniversary of the first long-term mission to the International Space Station, often called Expedition 1. Ever since then, there has at all times been a handful of people dwelling and dealing in orbit on the ISS — a steady presence of individuals in the area.

Prior to that mission, most of NASA’s human spaceflight program revolved around launching comparatively fast, weeks-long journeys to orbit on the company’s Space Shuttle. But within the mid-Nineties, NASA started sending its astronauts to the area for much longer journeys to dwell on Russia’s outdated Mir area station. Once the US, Russia, and their worldwide companions began piecing collectively the International Space Station, NASA began sending a few of its astronauts to remain for months at a time starting in 2000 — and there have been individuals on board ever since. A CONTINUOUS PRESENCE OF PEOPLE IN SPACE

As a part of Expedition 1, a crew of three astronauts launched to the area station on October thirty first, 2000, onboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. The flight carried two Russian cosmonauts — Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev — and NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd, who docked with the ISS two days in a while November 2nd. The trio would keep for 4 and a half months till March, leaving after a brand new crew of three got here to the station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery for the beginning of their greater than five-month keep. Their mission was aptly named Expedition 2.

NASA has been celebrating this huge second with press occasions from astronauts presently on board the ISS — a part of Expedition 64 — in addition to a virtual round table with the original members of Expedition 1. Today, the area company will air a sequence of specials in regards to the development of the International Space Station, highlighting the analysis that’s been completed on board the lab over the past 20 years. Tune in at 1 PM ET to get a historical past lesson about how we’ve saved individuals 250 miles above Earth repeatedly since 2000.