International Space Station programme

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International Space Station programme

Insignia with flags of the original signatory states.
Program overview
Organisation	Canadian Space Agency (CSA) European Space Agency (ESA) JAXA NASA Roscosmos
Manager	CSA: Pierre Jean ESA: Bernardo Patti JAXA: Yoshiyuki Hasegawa NASA: Joel Montalbano (2020–present)[1] Roscosmos: Alexey Krasnov
Status	Active
Programme history
Cost	$150 billion (2010)
Duration	1993–present[2]
First flight	Zarya November 20, 1998
First crewed flight	STS-88 December 4, 1998
Launch site(s)	Baikonur (1998–present) Kennedy (1998–present) Cape Canaveral (2010–present) Wallops (2013–present)
Vehicle information
Uncrewed vehicle(s)	Progress (2000–present) ATV (2008–2015) HTV (2009–2020) Dragon (2010–2020) Cygnus (2013–present) Cargo Dragon (2020-present)
Crewed vehicle(s)	ISS (1998–present) Space Shuttle (1998–2011) Soyuz (2000–present) Crew Dragon (2020–present)
Crew capacity	ISS: 7 Soyuz: 3 Crew Dragon: 4
Launch vehicle(s)	Proton (1998–present) Space Shuttle (1998–2011) Soyuz (2000–present) Falcon 9 (2010–present) Antares (2013–present) Atlas V (2015–2017)

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The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in September 1993 by the United States and Russia after 1980s plans for separate American (Freedom) and Soviet (Mir-2) space stations failed due to budgetary reasons.^[2] These agreements tie together the five space agencies and their respective International Space Station programmes and govern how they interact with each other on a daily basis to maintain station operations, from traffic control of spacecraft to and from the station, to utilisation of space and crew time. In March 2010, the International Space Station Program Managers from each of the five partner agencies were presented with Aviation Week's Laureate Award in the Space category,^[3] and the ISS programme was awarded the 2009 Collier Trophy.