International Space Station (ISS) is Five Years old

NASA is celebrating five years of human space flight on the International Space Station(ISS). Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev will mark five years of continuous human presence on the international space station Nov. 2. They are the 12th station crew. The first station crew, Commander Bill Shepherd, Flight Engineers Sergei Krikalev and Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko, arrived at the complex on Nov. 2, 2000.

The first station crew arrived on the complex on Nov. 2, 2000. The station is the largest and most complex spacecraft ever built. The result of a 16-nation partnership led by the United States, it is the largest international space project in history. Twelve crews have lived on the station, conducting assembly and research work. Station crews have logged more time in space than all other U.S. spacecraft combined.

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