What does «Estación Espacial Internacional» mean in Spanish?
- The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently in low Earth orbit. It is being assembled with international cooperation from the United States (NASA), Russia (RKA), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA) and several European countries (ESA). The ISS is the largest space station ever assembled, and has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000. By 2020 it had a crew capacity of six.