NASA celebrates 15 years of human presence on ISS
November 03, 2015  16:19
The International Space Station (ISS) has completed 15 years of continuous human presence and to mark the event NASA has released an official 'country song' that describes the epic journey.


Expedition 1, the first station crew, docked November 2, 2000 after launching two days earlier inside the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft. The space station at the time consisted of just three modules.


Commander William Shepherd and Flight Engineers Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko spent 141 days in space, saw two space shuttle missions and the addition of a solar array truss structure and the US Destiny laboratory module.


The US space agency released a delightful video about the space orbiting lab, set to a very country and banjo-filled tune.


The video details interesting facts about the station in twanging verse, according to 'The Verge'.


It also explains the station's logistics: it's about the size of a football field and weighs up to 1 million pounds.


The current six-member crew, Expedition 45, consists of NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and veteran cosmonauts Sergey Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko and Oleg Kononenko. Kelly and Kornienko are spending nearly a year in space.
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