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ISS still orbiting
The International Space Station is still orbiting
The ISS celebrated its 50,000th revolution around the Earth on Wednesday 14 August, at 7 pm to be exact. Fifty thousand orbits since the launch of its first component in 1998 is enough to make anyone dizzy!Question: given that the ISS takes about an hour and a half to make one orbit of our planet, how many will it have made by 2010?
To learn more about the ISS and its assembly, go to “What goes on up there?”.
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The lastest
Zoom : ATV, space’s wager
Preparing for take off
The first rockets
