On Dec. 6, 1998, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour officially began the construction of the International Space Station.
Mission STS-88 was the first shuttle mission to the space station. It brought along the first American component of the orbiting laboratory, an 18-foot-long module called the Unity Node, or Node 1, By the time the Unity node went to space, Russia's first space station component, the Zarya module, had already been in orbit for a couple weeks. So the STS-88 crew brought Unity to Zarya and connected the two components in orbit.
Mission STS-88 was the first shuttle mission to the space station. It brought along the first American component of the orbiting laboratory, an 18-foot-long module called the Unity Node, or Node 1, By the time the Unity node went to space, Russia's first space station component, the Zarya module, had already been in orbit for a couple weeks. So the STS-88 crew brought Unity to Zarya and connected the two components in orbit.
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00:00On this day, in space.
00:03In 1998, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour officially began the construction of the International Space Station.
00:09Mission STS-88 was the first shuttle mission to the space station.
00:13It brought along the first American component of the orbiting laboratory, an 18-foot long module called the Unity Node, or Node 1.
00:20By the time the Unity Node went to space, Russia's first space station component, the Zarya module, had already been in orbit for a couple weeks.
00:27So the STS-88 crew brought Unity and Zarya and connected the two components in orbit.
00:32And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:35NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology