As I was reviewing some shuttle info sheets that I picked up at the education center, I discovered some good tidbits on the International Space Station...
- the space station is huge, about the size of a 5 bedroom house
- the station weighs almost one million pounds (that's the weight of 330 cars)
- over 100,000 people from all over the world have helped build the station
- the station circles the Earth every hour and a half
- docking the shuttle to the station is like driving a car backward at 200 mph and trying to match tailpipes with a car facing the other way (yikes,that's husband's job)
- the station was built with the cooperation of 16 different countries
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