Buildings

International Space Station

By 2010-06-04T00:00:00

NASA astronaut Edward Lu plays a musical keyboard inside the US laboratory module Destiny in October 2003.

Source: NASA

A few weeks ago, the final building block was delivered to the International Space Station, thus completing the first building beyond Earth. Here, one of the architects involved in its construction, charts the saga of the most technically advanced environment ever built

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