Report a correction

The International Space Station

Oct 1998 · iss

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.

Factual errors are corrected without argument once documented. What you send is read by a person and checked against sources — nothing changes automatically. See the editorial policy.

Describe as precisely as you can what does not hold.
Optional.
Optional, but it helps enormously. A book, an article, a link — anything we can check against.
Optional. Only if you want a reply.