Space
Station Additions
 |  | | An
arriving space shuttle crewmember snapped this photo of the
space station Dec. 2, 2000, one month after the arrival of
Expedition One. | This
photo of the station was taken by a crewmember aboard STS-104
in July 2001. |
During the
first year of continuous human presence aboard the International
Space Station, the outpost became the largest, most sophisticated
and most powerful spacecraft ever built. The station grew from
a 70-ton, efficiency apartment-sized foothold in orbit to a space
laboratory of unprecedented capability, a 150-ton orbiting complex
with more volume than a three-bedroom house.
The following
structures and modules were added to the space station between
Nov. 2000 and Nov. 2001:
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