Life aboard the International Space Station

[Rick]

At 6.41pm this Thursday, a small bright light will appear low in the night sky before vanishing in the darkness. Few people will notice and even fewer will care, but for a handful of souls that speck on the horizon is a place called home.

From down here on Earth there is little more to see, but close up the spot takes on a more complex form: a shiny hulk of interconnecting tubes and metal trusses bracketed by giant wing-like panels. As roomy as a five-bedroom house, these are the most extreme living quarters ever built. What looks like a wandering star in the heavens is sunlight reflecting off the International Space Station.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/24/international-space-station-nasa-astronauts

[MarkS]

Great article!

If you look carefully in one of those pictures you can see me in my back garden pointing a C11 at them