Archive: https://archive.today/pAjIm From the post: >>The International Space Station recently celebrated a cosmic milestone—hosting space travelers non-stop for a quarter of a century. In 1998, the ISS was launched as a state-of-the-art research facility among the stars. Since then, the station has welcomed more than 280 people from 26 countries, along with butterflies, rodents, and fruit flies, among other creatures.