";s:4:"text";s:1792:" The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit.The ISS programme is a multi-national collaborative project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). International Space Station ISS/Shuttle Joint Operations Book ISS-4A, Mission Operations Directorate, Operations Division, Final, 10 November 2000, JSC-48503-4A [Acrobat 4.7 MB] The IDAs are meant to replace older docking ports that were used for the space shuttle, which ceased operations in 2011. The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. ※In-flight schedule of the HTV8 mission is subject to change depending on the ISS's operational timeline. The nosecone of Dragon opened to reveal the docking port and forward-facing Draco thrusters, and the first of a series of burns to gradually match the ISS’s orbit was completed. Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998.
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A photo posted by International Space Station (@iss) on Aug 15, 2016 at 4:42pm PDT The two NASA astronauts installed the first of two international docking adapters, or IDAs, which will enable the station to accommodate practically any aircraft and let new arrivals in, … *All times are Japan Standard Time (JST.