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MOSCOW — The international space station celebrated its 10th anniversary Tuesday. The research facility is the successor to the Mir space station, which operated from 1983 to 1998 before being sunk in the Pacific Ocean in a “spacecraft cemetery” not far from Christmas Island in 2000.
The agreement to construct the ISS was signed Jan. 29, 1998, in Washington by representatives from Canada, members of the European Space Agency, Japan, Russia and the United States. The launch of the first component took place Nov. 20, 1998, from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
