They’re more or less the same size: A football field is 360 by 160 foot. The space station is 356 by 239 feet. Another comparison: The United States spends about $10 billion per year in the NFL ...

The International Space Station is larger than a football field. But with 11 people soon to be aboard, there aren't enough places for them all to sleep.

For the past 5,200 days, astronauts have manned 82,000 orbits on the International Space Station at a cost of $8 million a day, with 40% of its research capacity unused.

The International Space Station is the most complex engineering project ever attempted in space and, ... a huge assembly spanning the length of a football field that houses critical electrical ...

International Space Station: Everything you need to know about the orbital laboratory; ... It's about the length of a U.S. football field, including its backbone-like truss segments and solar wings.

Gatens says the structure of the space station – which is the size of a football field – is what can't be upgraded and replaced. And something of that size is costly for NASA to maintain.

It's about the length of a football field. The U.S., Russia, Canada, Europe, and Japan began building it in 1998, and they've never really stopped. An exterior view of the International Space Station.

The International Space Station is one of the few nonstellar things up there that we can see from down here without instruments. It’s a prefab home the size of a football field, 462 tons and ...

The space station, about the size of a football field, has continuously housed astronauts since the year 2000, though it was originally intended to operate for only 15 years. Filed under ...

While the International Space Station has been considered "complete" for some time now, it has received upgrades and extensions since then. ... That means it's roughly the size of a football field.

NASA How to spot the International Space Station above Houston this week. The football field-sized laboratory that orbits the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour is expected to be visible in Houston on ...

Orbiting hundreds of miles above the Earth is humanity’s largest technological construction, the football field-sized International Space Station (ISS), which is a modular-assembled space station ...