ISS Celebrates 15 Years in Space- See if you can locate it while looking for Comet ISON
The connected Zarya and Unity modules after Unity was released from the Space Shuttle Endeavor’s cargo bay. Fifteen years ago on Nov. 20, 1998, the Roscosmos (the former Russian Space Agency) launched a Proton rocket that sent the Zarya module into space. This was the first section of the International Space Station. Two weeks later on Dec. 4, the United States launched the Unity module making the 2 modules a real international space station. The ISS is now the third brigh