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How to live in space: what we’ve learned from 20 years of the International Space Station – The Conversation US
After two decades as a home to astronauts, the International Space Station still has plenty to teach us about how humans can live away from Earth.
November 2 marks 20 years since the first residents arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiting habitat has been continuously occupied ever since.
Twenty straight years of life in space makes the ISS the ideal natural laboratory to understand how societies function beyond Earth.
The ISS is a collaboration between 25 space agencies and organisations. It has hosted 241 crew and a few tourists from 19 countries. This is 43% of all the people who have ever travelled in space.
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