The International Space Station is an internationally developed research facility that is being assembled in low Earth orbit. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is scheduled for completion by late 2011. The people involved in this are Commander and Science Officer Michael Foale and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter. The event took place in space.
Primary, a research laboratory, the ISS offers an advantage over spacecraft such as NASA's Space Shuttle because it is a long term platform in the space environment, where extended studies are conducted. The presence of a permanent crew affords the ability to monitor, replenish, modify experiments or launch new ones, benefits generally unavailable on specialized unmanned spacecraft.
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