The International Space Station (ISS) is Earth’s only microgravity laboratory that has allowed more than 3,600 researchers in 106 countries to conduct more than 2,500 experiments – and the research continues. What is the International Space Station?.Keep reading below to see the answers to more of the most frequently asked questions about this achievement in science and international cooperation. We want our friends to help us meet these challenges and share in their benefits.” … A space station will permit quantum leaps in our research in science, communications, in metals, and in lifesaving medicines which could be manufactured only in space. As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of humans living and working in space aboard the International Space Station, you may ask, why? Why would humankind live and work in space? President Ronald Reagan answered this question best: “We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain.

Earth view from space station