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in 1998, the station began an on orbit assembly, meaning it was built in space and was only recently completed. since the first crew arrived in november of 2000, more than 200 astronauts from 15 different countries have visited the station. when people say this still, you know, is it worth the cost all the technologies that we ve pushed that then turn around and become amazing new things back here on earth because we re trying to work in an environment where our engineering assumptions are wrong, so we have to be innovative, we have to solve problems we would never dream of and that generates all these new technologies. so you have to put all of that in the benefit side of that equation. then on top of that are the research discoveries themselves, which are almost endless. endless because there really isn t anywhere else that can simulate the effects of space, particularly on the human body. and crucially what we re learning out there is

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