Popular Science: November 2, 2000: The first residents move into the International Space Station

From my Anniversary collection on Pop Sci

'This is the first example of how we’re going to build things in space.'

The International Space Station, or ISS—our largest home away from home—has been continuously occupied since November 2, 2000. That month Popular Science published an interview conducted by Science Editor, Dawn Stover, with two of the ISS’s three seminal residents, NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonaut Sergie Krikelev. The third was another Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gidzenko.

Krikalev told Stover that he considered himself lucky to be one of the ISS’s first residents. “This is the first example of how we’re going to build things in space,” he noted.

November 2, 2000: The first residents move into the International Space Station

Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor.

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