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5 Years of Habitation on the ISS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wish-tickets-were-cheaper dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The International Space Station has marked five years of continuous human habitation. People started living on the station on November 2, 2000. In five years, the station has hosted 97 people from 10 countries, including 3 commercial passengers. It survived through the Columbia accident and the suspension of shuttle flights. The station is a testbed for long-duration missions to live and work on the Moon and Mars."

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  1. It's still not done yet???? by technoextreme · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Jeez... What's taking so long. Five years and it's not done yet. Here is a better article:
    http://space.com/businesstechnology/051102_techwed _iss_fifthyear.html

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  2. Population Growth Slowing by MushMouth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually population growth is slowing quite dramatically and there is an expectation that the world population will hit a maximum of about 9 billion people (only 50% higher than today). The easiest/cheapest way to deal with over population is to educate women in the third world. Then the next best way would be for humans to populate the arctic and oceans (more than 2/3rds of the world surface)

  3. Re:Could someone please post accomplishments? by hitmark · · Score: 3, Interesting

    from what i understand the building of it is going slower then planed, or is more or less on ice as the shuttle was going to do the majority of the bulk lifts.

    therefor most of the lab space isnt in place yet.

    hell, its running on a skeleton crew right now...

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  4. Re:lossage by dasunt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lets assume that we want to remove 6 billion people from the face of the planet into space. We'll give a timespan of 20 years. That is 300,000,000 people a year. About 800,000 people a day, over 34,000 an hour, 570 people a minute, or 9 people a second.

    9 people a second, day and night, for 20 years. That is a lot of bandwidth, even for a group of space elevators.

    Other infrastructure scales up about as poorly.

    If we look at the timeframe, we probably won't have a working space elevator in 20 years. :( Its probably more likely that a space elevator is 30 - 50 years down the road.