Spacecraft --- Space Station

People (scientists, astronauts, science fiction writers, the public) have dreamed of having a permanent space station in orbit around the EArth.
For some, space stations are a place to do cutting edge scientific research in an environment that can not be matched on Earth.
For others, space stations are a place for business, where unique materials (crystals, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals) can be manufactured in better forms than on Earth.
But some others dream of space stations as staging points for expeditions to the planets and atars, as tourist attractions, or even as new cities and colonies that could relieve an overpopulated planet.
The U.S. forged a cooperative effort with 14 other countries (Canada, Japan, Brazil, and the European Space Agency -- United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden). During the planning of the ISS and after the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States invited Russia to cooperate in the ISS in 1993; this brought the number of participating countries to 16. NASA is taking the lead in coordinating the ISS's construction.
Let's examine the International Space Station!

Structure of the International Space Station
Propulsion
Communication
Navigation
Power
Computer
Resupply
Escape
Research in the ISS

Rockets Space Shuttle Space Station