"NASA celebrates 25 years of the International Space Station with live astronaut event"

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the station's launch today. The event will be live-streamed, and the crew will mark the occasion by reflecting on the station's history and accomplishments. The ISS has grown from its humble beginnings into a six-bedroom complex that has hosted 273 individuals from 21 countries. It has also witnessed numerous milestones, including the first all-woman spacewalk and the first long-duration missions by Black and Native American women. The ISS partners have committed to extending the partnership until at least 2030, and NASA is funding private space stations for the next decade. The focus of the partners has now shifted to the moon, with NASA's Artemis program and Russia's moon-facing alliance.