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Astronaut
© Photo courtesy of NASA
Wearing a Russian Sokol suit, astronaut Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA ISS science officer, poses with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit in the Unity node of the International Space Station (ISS). |
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in outer space. The station is about 320 kilometres above the surface of the Earth. It travels at an average speed more than 27,000 km per hour, completing nearly 16 orbits of the earth each day.
