International space station flew around the earth 150,000 times

In the more than 26 years since the start of the first module in 1998, the space station covered 6.4 billion kilometers, reported the state Russian news agency TASS. “This is 30 times more than the average distance from the earth to Mars, 4 times as much as from the earth to Saturn and almost as far to Pluto,” said Roskosmos in Moscow.

Russia, the USA, Canada, Japan and the European space agency ESA work together at the international space station. The major scientific project continues despite the Russian attack war against Ukraine. The station flies around the earth around 400 kilometers.

In the night of Thursday MEZ, a Dragon spaceship is to start from the USA and bring the next long-term crew to the ISS. A few days later, this capsule is also supposed to bring the US astronauts Sun Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth. They had spent an unplanned long stay in space since June 2024 due to the technical problems of their Starliner spaceship.