Space

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if we succeed in the coming decades, children will be taught that there is life out there.

life that we fought for.

Today marks 24 years that @NASA and its partners have maintained a permanent human presence in space. To put this in perspective, this means that anyone under the age of 24 has never lived a day without humans continuously living in space.

After more than a quarter of a century… https://t.co/7kL5Sby2X8

International Space Station

The first long-duration crew aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 1, is pictured in microgravity with fresh oranges. From left is Flight Engineer Yuri Gidzenko, Commander William Shepherd, and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev.

he Expedition 72 crew poses for a group portrait ahead of the departure of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission. From top left is NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, astronauts Matthew Dominick and Mike Barratt, and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Aleksandr Gorbunov. From bottom left are astronauts Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Ivan Vagner.