In his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan directed NASA to build an international space station within a decade.
By 2000, ISS has its first permanent residents and has allowed human to live continuously in space ever since.
On Jan. 24, 2019 Dr. Scott Copeland, Boeing senior manager of payloads and research, and Boeing ISS program manager Mark Mulqueen discussed the beginnings of ISS, its current activities and future plans in our ongoing Thought Leader Series.
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