The Space Station

Nasa astronaut kate rubins and russian cosmonauts sergey ryzhikov and sergey kud sverchkov launched for a six month stay on the space station from the baikonur cosmodrome in southern kazakhstan.
The space station. Local time a soyuz rocket blasted off from baikonur cosmodrome russia s sprawling and remote space launch facility in kazakhstan to the international space station. Stations must have docking ports to allow other spacecraft to dock to transfer crew and supplies. Nasa united states roscosmos russia jaxa japan esa europe and csa canada. The tracker top map shows where the space station is right now and its path 90 minutes ago 1 5 hr and 90 minutes ahead 1 5 hr.
Live space station tracking map. Space station iss viewing and sighting information schedule for your location tonight. Commercializing the international space station could allow for testing components for moon and mars missions and the orbiting platform could also be a pit stop on the way to the moon according. The international space station iss is a modularspace station habitable artificial satellite in low earth orbit.
Get the latest news images videos and more from humanity s home in orbit the international space station. The dark overlay indicates where it is nighttime in the world. It lacks major propulsion or landing systems. A space station also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time.