NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken will exit the orbital lab on July 16 to continue replacing batteries that store and distribute power collected from the solar arrays.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added …