Some of the details regarding construction, weight, size, and various modules have been enlisted in the following table:
Dimensions |
It would be 131 feet high, 290 feet wide, 356 feet long |
Weight |
Approximately one million pounds |
Power |
110-kilowatt average |
Distance from Earth |
250 miles above Earth |
Maximum Crew
|
Seven people |
Habitable Pressurized Volume |
43,000 cubic feet |
Expected Lifetime |
More than ten years |
Target for Completion |
2004 |
Total Cost to be incurred by NASA |
Approximately $96 billion |
Total Cost to Canada , Japan and the European Space Agency Combined |
Approximately $12 billion |
Estimated Number of Assembly Flights |
More than 40 |
Estimated Space walks Required for Assembly |
160 |
Estimated Space walk Hours Required for Assembly |
960 clock hours, 1,920 man hours |
Vehicles used to Assemble the Station |
Russian Soyuz rocket, Russian proton rocket, and U.S. space shuttle |
First Planned Crew |
Russian Soyuz rocket, Russian proton rocket, and U.S. space shuttle |
Launch of First Crew |
March 2000 (estimate |
Time Spent by ISS on per Astronaut per flight |
Three to six months |
Number of Components
|
Approximately 70 major components and hundreds of minor components
|
First Component to be Launched |
Russian Zarya module, Nov. 20, 1998 |
External Sites |
Four on the truss to mount experiments |
Number of Laboratories
|
There would be six laboratories, out of which, two would be U.S. , two Russian, one European, one Japanese |
Time Required to Complete one Earth orbit
|
90 minutes
|