ISS FAST FACTS
This means to travel around another object.
What is orbit?
This was the first ISS module
What is Zarya?
These give the ISS electrical power.
What are solar arrays?
In microgravity, people and objects do this.
What is float?
The ISS is a home and also this.
What is a science laboratory?
The ISS orbits about this high above Earth.
What is 400 km? / 240-250m
This country launched Zarya
What is Russia?
Most ISS modules have this shape.
What is a cylinder?
The first resident ISS crew arrived in this year.
What is 2000?
Biology, physics and Earth observation are examples of this on the ISS.
What is scientific research?
The ISS completes one orbit in about this long.
What is 90 minutes?
Major ISS assembly took about this many years.
What is 13 years?
People go out through an airlock; spacecraft connect here.
What are docking ports?
Astronauts exercise to protect these two parts of the body.
What are muscles and bones?
This country contributed Canadarm2.
What is Canada?
The ISS travels at about this speed.
What is 28,000 km/h / 17,500 mph?
STS stands for this.
What is Space Transportation System?
Spacecraft connect to the ISS here.
What are docking ports?
Russian space crew members are called this.
What are cosmonauts?
USOS stands for this.
What is United States Orbital Segment?
The ISS is about this long from end to end.
What is 109 meters / 360 feet / a football field ?
This was a main purpose of the Space Shuttle program
What is building the ISS?
The ISS stays together at high speed because its parts are connected like this.
What is securely / with strong connections?
The ISS can support this many regular crew members.
What is seven?
These three agencies represent the U.S., Europe and Japan.
What are NASA, ESA and JAXA?