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The International Space Station travels as such high speeds that it could go to the moon and back in a single day. The ISS travels at speeds of 7.71km a second.
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In order to build the ISS it took seven types of launch vehicles and 136 space flights.
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The ISS weighs approximately 1 million pounds.
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There are 8 miles of electrical wire in the ISS only for connecting its electrical system.
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The surface area of the ISS is about the size of a US football field.
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There is more livable space aboard the ISS than would exist in a 6 bedroom home.
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The ISS has two bathrooms
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The ISS has a gym with a bay window.
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Experiment and spacecraft systems are contained within an area about the size of 100 telephone booths.
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Ships that have used ISS as a spaceport include four European ATV cargo spacecraft, four Japanese HTV cargo spacecraft, three SpaceX Dragons, 37 Space Shuttle missions, and 89 Russian spacecraft.
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There are 52 computers that control ISS.
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Since 2000, crews aboard ISS have consumed more than 25,000 meals. This is equal to 7 tons of food for six months for only 3 astronauts.
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There have been more than 230 people from 18 countries to visit ISS already.
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Once ISS reaches its end of use, many modules will be used for other purposes and space stations.
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ISS supports more than 100k people working in 16 countries and 37 US states.
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Six people live aboard ISS and work while it orbits the earth every 90 minutes.
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The longest time spent aboard ISS by someone was 665 days. Peggy Whitson set this record on Sept. 2, 2017.
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There have been more than 205 spacewalks by cosmonauts and astronauts aboard the ISS since 1998. Spacewalks are conducted for maintenance and repair as well as space station construction.
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It is possible to connect 6 spaceships to the ISS at one time.
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There have been more than 2,400 research investigations performed aboard the ISS microgravity laboratory.
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There is a water recovery system aboard the ISS that reduces dependence on water delivery by 65%.
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Software aboard the ISS designed to ensure crew and station health and safety monitors approximately 350,000 sensors.
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At one time it was possible for travellers to pay for their passage into space but was halted in 2011 when station crew was reduced to 6.
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