Look - there’s plenty about Armageddon's "science" to nitpick. So, Bruce Willis and his crew made a pitstop on MIR to disastrous results. But, when the 1998 disaster movie Armageddon was being made, the ISS hadn't been launched yet. MIR was the first modular space station and held the record for the largest human spacecraft and longest continuously crewed spacecraft until superseded on both accounts by the ISS. MIR was the predecessor to the ISS, in operation from 1986 to 2001, and under control of the Soviet Union - later Russia. ARMAGEDDON’S SPECTACULAR EXPLOSION OF MIR Here’s what Hollywood has gotten right, and what Hollywood has gotten wrong, about space stations. Imagined scenarios that fly a little too far afield. It’s good that our only permanent home off Earth has so captured the public imagination. An endeavor so impressive and inspiring as an international effort to house humans in space, deserves every bit of public spotlight it has garnered. Recently, there have been talks of Tom Cruise filming a movie on the station, and in the meantime, the ISS has become a regular set-piece in science fiction films and television. He made a viral music video where he covered David Bowie’s "Space Oddity," and his photography from out the porthole window has since been bound into a coffee table book. A few years back, Chris Hadfield, then commander of ISS, became something of an online celebrity owing to the way he communicated life in space. Astronauts tweet from space, they take interviews and talk to students. The International Space Station has become such a part of our lives that it’s fully crossed over from the realm of pure science, to being part of our culture. Most of us move from day to day without even considering that there are people living in space, and that we have had humans in the ISS, every single day, for the last 20 years. There’s something almost overwhelming about the humble nature of it all, the way it’s become such an ordinary part of our lives. For two decades, there have always been humans in space. Since that time - 20 years ago this week - this international collaborative effort has sustained an unbroken human presence off of the planet. The first module of the ISS was launched in 1998, but there weren't always crewmembers living up inside until Nov. This week marks an important anniversary for the International Space Station.
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