Celebrating the International Space Station's 25th Anniversary (1998-2023)

Celebrating the International Space Station's 25th Anniversary (1998-2023)

Twenty-five years ago this week, the first two modules of the International Space Station—Zarya and Unity—were mated during the STS-88 mission of space shuttle Endeavour. The shuttle’s Canadarm robotic arm reached out and grappled Zarya that had been on orbit just over two weeks, and attached it to the Unity module stowed inside Endeavour’s payload bay. Endeavour would undock from the young dual-module station one week later beginning the space station assembly era.

The seven-member Expedition 70 crew poses for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. In the front row (from left) are, Commander Andreas Mogensen of Denmark from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara. In the back are, Roscosmos Flight Engineers Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov, and Oleg Kononenko of Russia; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Dec. 6, 2023

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