"Its speed is record". What you don't know about the International Space Station where Sultan Al Neyadi is located

On Friday, Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi arrived at the International Space Station with the crew-6 crew to carry out the longest space mission in Arab history, which extends for six months.

The International Space Station is a modular station (habitable satellite) in low-Earth orbit, a multinational cooperative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA, the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), Japan's JAXA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

Ownership and use of the space station are determined by intergovernmental treaties and conventions.

The station serves as a laboratory for space environment and microgravity research, conducting scientific research in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics and other fields.

The International Space Station is the place to test spacecraft systems and equipment for potential future long-term missions to the Moon and Mars.

The idea for the International Space Station program emerged from two projects: NASA's Space Station Freedom, a U.S. proposal designed in 1984 to build a station that moves in orbit around the Earth and is permanently inhabited. The second contemporary project of the first was the Soviet-Russian Mir 2 project, which was proposed in 1976 with similar goals.

The International Space Station is the ninth space station inhabited by space crews, as it was preceded by several stations, manufactured by the programs "Salyut", "Almaz", the Soviet Mir station (later Russian), and the American "Skylab" station.

The International Space Station is the largest man-made station in space, the largest satellite in low Earth orbit, and can be regularly seen with the naked eye from the Earth's surface.

With a length of 109 meters and a width of about 73 meters, which is equivalent to the size of a large football field, it provides astronauts with plenty of comfortable rooms for eating and sleeping periods.

The ISS maintains an average altitude orbit of about 400 kilometers, equivalent to 250 miles, through so-called altitude maneuvers, in which the station uses engines mounted on the service module (Zvezda). The International Space Station orbits the Earth in about 93 minutes, completing 15.5 cycles a day.

The station is divided into two parts: the Russian orbital part (ROS), which is operated by Russia, and the orbital part of the United States (USOS), which is operated by the United States, among many other countries.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos has agreed to keep the Russian orbital part of the station operational until 2024, after having previously proposed using elements of this part to build a new Russian space station called Opsec.

The first parts of the International Space Station were launched in 1998, and the first long-term astronaut mission arrived at the station on November 2000, 21, and since then the International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for 86 years and 357 days, the longest continuous period of human existence in low Earth orbit, surpassing the previous record of nine years and <> days set by the Russian Mir Space Station.