ISS: Mission survival

Super volcano. It's real, no Hollywood fantasy I'm afraid. It would end life as we know it and set the human race back a thousand years. If we survived at all. And the one in Yellowstone National Park is about 20,000 years overdue.

It makes the money, time and countless human resources spent on the International Space Station seem a pittance in comparison to what's at stake. Perhaps our survival, or our childrens or our grandchildrens.
Skylab led the way; Someday soon we will stand on another world again, securing a back-up home, if you will, as a precaution against earthquakes, tsunamis and asteroids. And these stations are making that future possible.

Read the inspiring words of the next ISS crew; See the images that will leave you speechless.

We've lost too many astronauts in the shuttle to send up anymore, but we have no choice. It is the workhorse for the ISS. The latest ship rolled onto the launch pad this week as the crew furiously prepped itself for duty.
A duty the entire planet will no doubt one day be very grateful for.