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Does anyone know what the last time was when there was no human in space?

The last day with no-one in space was before Expedition One was launched to the ISS, which means October 30, 2000; just over five years ago. Shimgray | talk | 01:11, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Its says in the article that the ISS has been continously manned since 2001...so im assuming it is incorrect...CORRECTED | 08:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Future of Space Stations 2 Time coincidence? 3 Death Star 4 Number of Visitors 5 Escape Pod/Module

[edit] Future of Space Stations

The article doesn't mention predictions about what space stations will be like in the near future. Is anyone planning on building sphericle space stations any time soon, or will all space stations be modular for the foreseeable future? As people in space represent now and the future, aren't things like that important?

[edit] Time coincidence?

Is it an error or a coincidence that the time of launch for both Mir and ISS is 21:28:23 UTC? — Michael J 15:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

It's wrong, but I don't know what the correct time is. Circa 4AM UTC, per [1], but haven't been able to find a launch time yet. Shimgray | talk | 16:32, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Death Star

Is is accurate to call Star War's Death Star a space station? It is a self-propelled vehicle (and was certainly not stationary, in any sense). Wouldn't a more accurate description would be a warship, regardless of the movie's nomenclature?

I agree with this point of view, I just removed the example. // Duccio (write me) 00:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Visitors

31 astronauts has been counted twice and Sergei Krikalev has been on the ISS three times.
July 10th 2006 120 people have been visiting ISS, including the nine people at the moment (Discovery & ISS crew 13).
81 Americans (15 women, 16 ISS-crew members, 25 double flights), 23 Russians (15 ISS-crew members, 5 double & 1 triple flights,), 1 German (1 ISS-crew member), 2 Frenchmen (1 Frenchwoman), 2 Italians, 1 Belgian, 1 Dutchman, 1 Spaniard, 2 Japanese, 3 Canadians (1 woman), 1 Brazilian, 1 Kazakhstani and 1 South African.

I will change the number. --Necessary Evil 11:25, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Unmanned visits to ISS: we probably need to update this because of the recent ATV mission, which can certainly be classifeid as an 'unmanned visit'. However, there have surely been move (shuttle) missions since "October 27, 2006" as well... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.110.194.123 (talk) 23:23, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Escape Pod/Module

where can I find more information on the escape pod for the space station? --Andrew Rickert

For the International Space Station, the resident crew would use the docked Soyuz-TMA spacecraft to escape from the station in an emergency. I believe the Russians have planned it this way for all their orbital stations. It would be interesting to add to the article a section on the various U.S. space station "lifeboat" plans. (sdsds - talk) 08:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

(Six months later....) That would be the Crew Return Vehicle, of course. (sdsds - talk) 04:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)