The
Space Station just made its
100,000th orbit around Earth
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The International
Space Station hit a fun milestone on Monday.*
The
Station just surpassed its
100,000th orbit since the first component of the outpost launched to
Space in 1998.*
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In total, this means the
Space laboratory has traveled about 2.6 billion miles, "or roughly the distance between
Earth and Neptune," NASA said in a
video description.*It takes about 90 minutes for the
Station to make a complete
orbit of Earth, and crewmembers on the
Station experience about 16 sunrises and sunsets per day.
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