The International Space Station: Together is the Future...

The International Space System refers to a collaborative network of space-related initiatives, missions, technologies, and organizations involving multiple countries working together to explore and utilize outer space..As the International Space Station Program completes 10 years of continuous human presence, administrators and former crewmembers discuss its past, present and future. The first residents, astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko came aboard the ISS on Nov. 2, 2000 on Expedition 1.