NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

For release: 12-23-03
Photo release #: 03-219

International Space Station Science — One of NASA's rising stars

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Traveling at a speed of 17,000 mph, the International Space Station crosses the same area of the planet every three days and covers more than 90 percent of the populated Earth. The first three-man crew inhabited the Station on Nov. 2, 2000, taking their place on the most ambitious space research project in human history. (NASA/MSFC)

 

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A little more than three years ago, NASA's Payload Operations Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., began full-time operations as the science command post for the International Space Station. Staffed around the clock by three shifts of eight to 10 flight controllers, this science command and control center links Earth-bound researchers with their experiments - or payloads - in orbit. They serve as an extra set of eyes or pair of hands devoted to science, thus increasing experiment efficiency and saving precious crew time for operations that require a human touch. (NASA/MSFC)

 

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