The International Space Station
The rivals of the space race build something together
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The station is the largest structure humans have assembled off Earth, put together from modules launched over more than a decade. It is also a political instrument: the cooperation kept Russian rocket engineers employed after the Soviet collapse, when the alternative might have been that expertise dispersing elsewhere.
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Russia and the United States, who had competed over space throughout the Cold War, began building a space station together with Europe, Japan and Canada. Since 2000 it has been continuously inhabited.
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