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International Space Station - A fish-eye view of the various scientific labs the ISS carries in space.

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International Space Station - CubeSats, a type of miniaturized satellite, are deployed into orbit. 

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International Space Station - An ISS crew member storing scientific samples for later analysis.

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International Space Station - The Kounotori 4, an unmanned cargo spacecraft launched by Japan, berthing.

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International Space Station - The ISS pictured in 2000. Its first component launched into orbit in 1998.

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International Space Station - The ISS photographed in 2002 displaying more components. 

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International Space Station - By the early 2000s, the ISS was clearly taking shape. 

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International Space Station - By 2005, the ISS, in low earth orbit, had undergone considerable expansion. 

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International Space Station - The ISS with its second set of solar arrays, delivered in 2006 by the NASA space shuttle Atlantis.

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International Space Station - In 2009, the fourth and final set of solar panels had been installed. The ISS was slowly assembled over the course of a decade, through the help of various spaceflights and crews.

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International Space Station - A pressurized connecting module known as "Unity" as photographed from the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

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International Space Station - The "Destiny" laboratory interior pictured in 2001. Also known as the US Lab, this is the primary research facility for United States payloads aboard the ISS.  

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International Space Station - "Quest," the huge US Orbital Segment airlock.  

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International Space Station - Mission specialist Christer Fuglesang makes the second of three planned space walks during construction on the ISS in 2006.

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International Space Station - The primary research facility known as "Columbus," as seen in 2008.

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International Space Station - A crew member using the airlock on "Kibō," which has a sliding drawer for external experiments. 

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International Space Station - Room with a view: The ISS's extraordinary Cupola, the design of which has been compared to the Han Solo's Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars.'

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International Space Station - The Permanent Multipurpose Module known as "Leonardo" is installed.

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International Space Station - An incredible view of ISS astronauts at work high over New Zealand. 

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International Space Station - Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov operating a manual crane, his Soyuz spacecraft docked below him.

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International Space Station - Russian solar arrays, backlit by sunset, dazzle in their brilliant luminosity. 

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International Space Station - The computer age: a bank of laptops at the ready in the ISS's US lab. 

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International Space Station - Mike Hopkins, one of the US astronauts making a rare 2013 Christmas Eve spacewalk. It was only the second Christmas Eve spacewalk in NASA history. 

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International Space Station - Sunrise breaks over the Earth's horizon, as seen from the ISS. 

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International Space Station - "Harmony," also known as Node 2, is the second of the station's node modules, pictured in 2011.

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International Space Station - The ISS floats in orbit in 2000 following its undocking from the space shuttle Atlantis.

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International Space Station - The space shuttle Atlantis in Earth orbit seen over the Bahamas just before docking for the last time with the ISS in 2011.

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International Space Station - Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing a spacewalk in 2011.

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International Space Station - Astronaut Scott Parazynski performs makeshift repairs to a US solar array, which damaged itself (top left) when unfolding.

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International Space Station -

Space shuttle Endeavour, a Soyuz TMA-21, and Progress M-10M docked to the ISS—a picture of true international teamwork.

See also: The daily lives of astronauts in space.

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