Humans Have Been In Space Continuously For The Last 20 Years
Today , November 2 , marks two decades of continuous human comportment aboard the International Space Station ( ISS ) in low-pitched - Earth orbit . Astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev flew into blank space onOctober 31 , 2000 , reaching the orbiting laboratory two years afterwards . The last 20 yr have been an incredible achievement in terms of human endeavors and scientific inquiry ....