1)Launched in 1998
2)Built by a partnership of 16 nations
3)211 people from 15 countries have visited the ISS so far
4)16 people can live on the ISS

5)NASA has a plan to send human deeper into space, and will use lessons from the space station to get astronauts ready for the journey

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6)Circles the Earth 17,500 miles per hour
7)Circles the Earth every 90min
8)The third brightest object in the sky

9)ISS is almost four time as large as the Russian space station Mir, and about five times as large as the U.S Skylab
10)Also a science lab