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Forum:	Space Shuttles - Space Station
Topic:	[ISS] Station passes 100,000 orbits of Earth

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="sans-serif">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">NASA release <blockquote><font size="+0"><b>Around the World 100,000 Times</b></font><P><div align="justify">The International Space Station is a microgravity laboratory in which an international crew of six people live and work while traveling at a speed of five miles per second (or 17,500 miles per hour), orbiting Earth every 90 minutes.<P>Monday, May 16, marks the International Space Station's 100,000th orbit!<P><center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Se4-RpKdgZc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

That's more than 2,643,342,240 miles traveled! Which is also like 10 round trips to Mars, OR nearly the distance to Neptune!

The space station has been in orbit for over 17 years, and during that time, over 1,922 research investigations have been performed. More than 1,200 scientific results publications have been produced as a result.

There have even been 222 different people that have visited the space station. This includes the current crew that is working and living on orbit.

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