On October 31, 2000, three astronauts from the United States and Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan on a two-day flight into space. Their destination: a 109 metre-long floating station perched above the Earth.
This Expedition 1 crew’s job was to bring the new International Space Station (ISS) to life by doing something no one had done before: spend four months in orbit assembling life support and communications systems needed for a long-term stay in space.
