By 
Tien Nguyen
 | 
TED-Ed Original

The incredible collaboration behind the International Space Station

The International Space Station is roughly the size of a six-bedroom house and weighs more than 320 cars -- it's so large that no single rocket could have lifted it into orbit. Instead it was assembled piece by piece while hurtling through space at 28000 kilometers per hour lapping the Earth once every 90 minutes. Tien Nguyen explains how.

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