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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. Re:Why? by Lotana · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well if you end up in the vacuum of space, you still die of suffocation. Therefore it is about the same length of suffering anyway.

    And what is wrong with sharks? I will take a quick shark-bites-head-off death over drowning any day!

  2. Re:Meh. by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    And anyway, the goal of a space station is not to make some jingoistic room temperature IQs proud

    How'd you know I measure room temperature in Kelvins?

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