The clock is ticking on the International Space Station (ISS): humanity’s outpost in space must remain in operation until 2030, after which the station must be “buried”. No easy task: the ISS is 400 kilometres from Earth and weighs 450 tonnes.
The sheer size of the largest man-made object in space also suggests that it will not be child’s play: at almost 110 meters, the ISS is as long as a football field, and its width and height are 80 to 90 meters. This results in 1,200 cubic meters of living space in space, which orbits the Earth every 94 minutes. At least until a high-tech spacecraft from the US ends the ISS’s flight. And here’s how it works.
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