Most people do not know that we've had a space station in orbit since 1998. There have been 16 expedition crews (44 folks) that have lived aboard the station for an average of 6 months each. The station is the width of a football field and has habitable volume equivalent of a 2 story house. The next Shuttle flight is May 25th and will bring the largest of the 4 laboratory modules. This one was built by Japan. You can easily see the station fly over you by checking this link for when it's visible:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...ngs/index.html
Yeah... NASA geek and employee for 23 years. So what other type of bike could I ride but a rocket.
