1. The International Space Station (ISS)
Mikayla Denny

2. What is The ISS?
The incredible International Space Station is the biggest laboratory in orbit.
An achievement in international, technological and politics.
Five Partners: United States, Canada, Russia, Europe, and Japan.
70 major parts and hundreds of smaller, minor pieces

3. The Major Parts
Canadian Mobile Servicing System: 55-foot robotic arm. Can carry up to 125 tons, has a mobile transporter. Can perform maintenance.
Zarya (A.K.A. Functional Cargo Block): Contains energy, fuel storage, propulsion, and docking points.
Russian Service Module: Life support and utilities, thrusters, habitation functions. Weighing about 42,000 lbs.
Science Power Platform (SPP): Power provider and rejection of heat for science and operations.

4. The Major Parts (Cont.)
Crew Return Vehicles (CRVs): Used as a medical room when a crew member is ill or injured. Can accommodate a total of three people (two for ill).
Progress Cargo Vehicles: carries up to 6,00 lbs. of reboost propellant to the Space Station four times a year.
Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV): Transfer vehicle to carry reboost propellant and to supply the Station.

5. The Laboratories
U.S.: Laboratory; Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM)
Europe: European Space Agency (ESA) Columbus Orbital Facility (COF)
Japan: Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)
Russia: Two Russian Research Modules

6. Module Information
U.S. European and Japanese Laboratories: Providing 33 International Standard Payload Racks and additional space available in the Russian Research Modules.
Japan’s JEM: Exposed platform attached with 10 spaces for mounting. Direct contact with the environment of space. Also has a robotic arm for load operations.
U.S. Habitation Modules: Galley, toilets, sleep stations, etc…

7. Module Information (Cont.)
Three Italian Multi-Purpose Laboratory Modules (MPLMs): carrying pressurized cargo launch on Space Shuttle. Each can carry 16 International Standard Payload Racks.
Three U.S. Nodes. Storage Space only. Node 2 has equipment for electrical power; Node 3 has life support. Structural foundations linking the pressurized modules together.

8. Module Information (Cont.)
External Sites - Four truss locations used for mounting experiments. Its purpose is to look down at Earth or up at space for exposure to space.

9. How It’s All Put together!

10. More About the Modules…
All Parts of the Space Station are shapes of canisters, spheres, triangles, beams, and flat, long panels.
Triangles and Beams: The truss forming the backbone for the Space Station.
Panels: Solar panels that collect the Sunlight and convert the energy into electrical energy. There are also radiators that rid the Station of excess heat.

11. More About the Modules… (Cont.)
The Robotic Arm: The Remote Manipulator System helps with the construction of the Station. Grabs and moves modules or astronauts into the position needed. The arm was built by Canada and is known as Canadarm 2. (The first arm is on the Space Shuttle)

12. Trusses The trusses hold up the solar arrays and the radiators.
There are a total of 10 segments and 16 solar array panels.
The entire structure is equal to the length of a football field (including end zones).
Labeled based on location. (ex. P stands for “port”)
Extras are routed through the segments of trusses.

13. Other Cool Facts
It takes approximately 90 minutes to circle the Earth on the ISS.
You can see 16 sunrises and sunsets a day on the Space Station.
Temperatures can fall to -200 degrees Celsius in night periods of time and up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit in the day periods of time.
The ISS is the third brightest object in the sky!

14. Pictures!

15. U.S. Habitation Module Launched in 2003 28 ft. long X 14 ft. wide