The ISS Hit 100,000 Orbits This Week

[Paratus]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2016/05/16/station-reaches-100000-orbits-deploys-cubesats/

Russia launched the Zarya module (also known as the FGB) back in November of 1998.

Here's what it looks like today:

We've had a continuous human presence in space since November 2 2000.

She's still got another 8-12 years left in her.

 

[John Connor]

The distance from earth to Neptune.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Amazing, especially the 3rd photo

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Wifey works with the ISS /Flex.

 

[Paratus]

Best views in the house:

From the outside

 

[Franz316]

A rare image of Endeavour docked with the ISS by an exiting Soyuz crew.

 

[biostud]

Best views in the house:

or the view from a TIE fighter?

 

[Paratus]

or the view from a TIE fighter?

😱

(Shot from Atlantis leaving the space station after mission 13A Jun 2007)

 

[rudder]

Crazy that everyone once in a while I can see it fly overhead with the nekid eye.

 

[Paratus]

Crazy that everyone once in a while I can see it fly overhead with the nekid eye.

After one ISS assembly mission ended I caught the ISS, Space Shuttle which was leaving and an arriving ESA ATV all flying in a row one night. It was a pretty cool sight.