International Space Station

British  

noun

1.  ISS.  an orbiting space station construction of which began in 2001 with the cooperation of 16 nations; used for scientific and space research

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Example Sentences

Over that time, Williams flew three missions to the International Space Station and built one of the most accomplished records in human spaceflight.

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Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records throughout her career.

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In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions differed from those observed on Earth.

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To address that gap, Huss and colleagues compared two sets of bacterial E. coli samples infected with a phage known as T7 -- one set incubated on Earth and the other aboard the International Space Station.

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The landing brought to a close a mission that lasted more than five months aboard the International Space Station.

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