What Astronauts Bring Back to Earth for Us!

What can we learn from the people who have spent life OUTSIDE of our planet? The International Space Station is one of the most incredible feats of human engineering, and the secret to making it all possible is a lesson that could help us solve our biggest problems down here on Earth!

Glance up at a clear night sky one evening and you might find what looks to be a slow-moving shooting star making its way across the sky. But that’s no cosmic rock or extraterrestrial life form, my friend. No, that’s that the glimmer of a very human endeavor: an incredible feat of technology that has been sustaining human life in space for the past 20 years!

By Liesl Ulrich-Verderber