PEACHOID PRESSINGS

A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

International Space Station celebrates 15 years of continuous human presence in space (low Earth orbit)

On November 2, 2000, a Russian Soyuz rocket docked at the International Space Station (ISS) carrying Expedition 1, carrying NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Roscosmos cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev.

The ISS shows what an international co-operation combined with scientific endeavour can achieve: since the launch of the first module in 1998, 211 astronauts from 15 countries have visited the ISS and over 69 countries have contributed to the development and running of the space station.

The breakthroughs achieved there would not have been possible on Earth. Aside from the many hundreds of experiments carried out in 15 years, technological innovations designed for the station have been transferred to help people on Earth, particularly when it comes to health and medicine.

Filtration systems designed for space are helping people around the world gain access to clean water. Compact ultrasound devices developed for the use on the station have led to portable instruments that can travel to patients who otherwise might not have access to diagnostic machines. Robotic arms working on the station have been adapted to do things on Earth like perform surgery. And a lot has been learned about the aspects of living in a micro-gravity environment. you can read more about how ISS is benefiting people here