It's the most complex and largest engineering exercise we've ever accomplished as human beings. It's also the largest international project, according to a variety of metrics, that's been done in peace time, NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman tells Inverse.
Continuous, non-stop occupation in space will be essential to getting humans to loftier destinations, like Mars, and the ISS has been home to the longest-inhabited platform in space, many experts argue, according to Don Platt, associate professor of aerospace at the Florida Institute of Technology.
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