Smelly and very noisy … what you did not know about...

The International Space Station is orbiting at an altitude of approximately 390 km from the surface of the planet Earth at a speed of 28,000 km per hour. The International Space Station is designed to take over the role and tasks of the Russian Mir space station, and is supervised by international cooperation. Its goal is to prepare people to spend long time in space, and to conduct experiments outside the Earth’s gravitational region.

The International Space Station was launched for the first time on November 20, 1998, so it will be 20 years since its launch in 2018.

The International Space Station, which has been in space for decades, this week, is celebrating 20 years since receiving its first guests, but the International Station is not a five-star or two-star hotel, as some imagine.

The International Space Station has been continuously busy since its launch, with this week marking 20 years since the first astronauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). Which revolves in a stable orbit since that date.

The constant flights and new guests have made the International Station an ideal “natural laboratory” in space to study life outside the blue planet.

The International Space Station is the result of cooperation between 25 agencies and space organizations. According to The Guardian, the station has so far hosted 241 astronauts and a few tourists from 19 countries, which is 43% of the total people who have gone up in space.

5 room house
According to The Guardian, the International Space Station now consists of 16 units: 4 Russian, 9 American, 2 Japanese and 1 European.

The station takes an area estimated to be the size of a 4-bedroom house from the inside, with a crew of six trained astronauts serving for six months at a time.

Not a hotel … real life at the station
The first flight in history by the first Russian astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, who orbited the Earth in 1961, proved a complete revolution that humans can live in space, albeit with some fundamental differences.

For example, the International Space Station does not have sides (top and bottom), and it does not rotate to provide gravity, as it swims far into space, and every day-to-day operation such as food, drink and bath requires prior planning by the astronauts.

The station is like a “terrible” shared home, except that you cannot leave from it, that you have to work all the time, and no one sleeps well at night.

“Gravity” spots have been created throughout the space station, with the aim of stabilizing objects and equipment. In Russian units, the surfaces facing the ground (down) are painted olive green while the walls and surfaces facing away from the ground (top) are colored in beige, with the aim of helping the crew members to Direct themselves.

According to the report, the International Space Station is “smelly, very noisy, messy, infested with flaky skin cells and crumbs,” it is a “terrible” shared home.

Scientists are studying the next stage of the International Space Station, where a flight from which it takes to orbit around the moon, where the astronauts will live in a plane-like vehicle that orbits the moon for a month.