50 Insane Facts About International Space Station You Didn't Know

January 20, 2022 50 Insane Facts About International Space Station You Didn't Know , animation 0 Comments

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Today, in twenty twenty one on the international space station's thrusters suddenly fired as the result of a software glitch, it flipped backward about five hundred and forty degrees. Nasa flight director did something he'd never done before.

 He declared a spacecraft emergency, we'll come back to how things went down, but first number fifty will give you some hard facts before we get into the stranger things about the international space station, which, from now on we'll call by it's abbreviated name,

 I asked the first bit more much done november. Twenty in nineteen ninety eight- and that was the russian module called summer young then came to us module unity in the space station is made up of several different modules, all serving a purpose that will get into today. 

All you need to know is that it's kind of like a high tech space lego with different countries all doing their part to build and take care of it and use it. Those countries are russia and the us, canada, japan and various countries involved that belonged to the european space agency.

 In twenty eleven nasa said it was completed, it became the first truly international space station number. Forty nine. All these parts make the highest s three hundred fifty seven feet in length about one hundred and eight meter.

 It's about the size of a football field, american football. That is, although a soccer pitches, a similar size number. Forty eight in that great heap of a thing, is currently orbiting around the earth around two hundred and fifty miles away, I'm pretty fast to around seventeen thousand five hundred miles per hour.

 At that speed it can work the earth every ninety minutes. Okay, but can you see it from down here number? Forty, seven? Yes, you can. As long as you have clear skies, there are thousands of places on earth from where you can easily spot the. 

I assess it's. The third brightest object in the sky and it's no big deal to get a glimpse, and you want to know where to look and when nasa has a website called spot the station nasa says it looks like a bright fast, moving plane. They'll get too excited. 

No sooner than you see it, it's going in the number forty six folks didn't live in the I assess at the start, astronauts first percent there in november second, two thousand, and there were two russian dudes year. He gets and go and sergey kick eleven and one american dude bill shepherd after they laid down to home, sweet home doormat and the guy assess had people on it ever since. 

As for what they did first, it involved a lot of fun unpacking in assembling of critical. Things is spent about four months in total, unpacking and dissembling, which could probably a burn them a fortune if they had their own on boxing youtube channel.

 Let's now talk about life on the I assess, which is not always a bed of roses number forty five, the last thing anyone needs up in space is everyone getting sick, doesn't happen, often for various reasons. Before astronauts go up there to have to quarantine down here on earth that sometimes called the crew health stabilization program, it can suck for the astronauts because they're in a kind of comfortable jail for two weeks. 

Nasa said this before the last flight to the I assessed. All of our crew must stay in quarantine for two weeks before they launch. This ensures that they aren't sick are incubating and illness when they get to the space station, and it's called health stabilization in quarantine. 

Astronauts generally read a lot exercise and spend time using devices to have video chats with their families and friends. If they do come into contact with anyone.

 Those people have to go, get the green light from nasa flight surgeons and that's all good, but has anyone been sick on the highest s? Number? Forty, four? 

Yes, they have astronauts have been known to get colds respiratory infections, skin infections and sometimes urinary tract infections, but how to deal with that open space number forty three there might not be a doctor on the I obsessed with all the astronauts will have had some basic medical training and they're. Also basic medical supplies.

 Infections are generally just treated with antibiotics, so they aren't you usually a problem. The bad news is bacterial infections are more deadly in space because of micro gravity, antibiotics, don't work as well up there either. 

The good news is nasa, has a bunch of medical experts down below who often talk to the astronauts about bruises cuts and, if need be, a burning sensation when peeing also there might be a crew surgeon up there. One former surgeon was.