SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live.

Detailed explanation-2: -The International Space Station is a co-operative programme between Europe, the United States, Russia, Canada, and Japan for the joint development, operation and utilisation of a permanently inhabited Space Station in low Earth orbit.

Detailed explanation-3: -NASA and its international partners have maintained a continuous and productive human presence aboard the International Space Station for more than 21 years. Life extension analysis for the US Segment has been completed through 2028 with no issues that would prevent space station from being further extended.

Detailed explanation-4: -An international partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries operates the International Space Station. Learn more about visitors to the space station by country. The space station has been continuously occupied since November 2000.

Detailed explanation-5: -An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the ISS. The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Detailed explanation-6: -India, South Korea ISRO chairman K. Sivan announced in 2019 that India will not join the International Space Station programme and will instead build a 20 tonne space station on its own.