Who "owns" the international space station?

Question

Which country launched it from earth and who is constantly living in it?

Answer 1

It's owned by several countries....

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Who owns the International Space Station?

The Intergovernmental Agreement allows the Space Station Partners States to extend their national jurisdiction in outer space, so the elements they provide (e.g. laboratories) are assimilated to the territories of the Partners States.

The basic rule is that 'each partner shall retain jurisdiction and control over the elements it registers and over personnel in or on the Space Station who are its nationals' (Article 5 of the Intergovernmental Agreement).

This means that the owners of the Space Station - the United States, Russia, the European Partner, Japan and Canada - are legally responsible for the respective elements they provide. The European States are being treated as one homogenous entity, called the European Partner on the Space Station. But any of the European States may extend their respective national laws and regulations to the European elements, equipment and personnel."

Answer 2

The US owns most of it. But we like to pretend it's international.

The US space shuttle put most (90%) of those ISS modules in space.
The ISS has around 30 parts and modules. Russia own only 4 pieces of that.
Majority of the ISS is owned by the US. The ISS is formerly called 'FREEDOM' before it became an international project. The US pays for most of the operational cost of the ISS.

Answer 3

It's called the ISS because it's owned by more than one gov't. The parts were built by various countries with space technology, especially the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada and various European countries (there is a European Space Agency, but different parts were assembled in different parts of Europe).

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Answer 4

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Who "owns" the international space station?
Which country launched it from earth and who is constantly living in it?

Answer 5

Well it was USA's idea to have an International Space Station.

They had the 1st peice up there, all other rich countries had their contribution to it, to make it bigger.

Its like each country launch something to the space and add something to the space station..

Russian Cosmmonots are currently living there right now..

Answer 6

owns international space station

Answer 7

It is owned jointly by several countries governments, primarily the United States and Russia, although several other countries have contributed too. It was launched in pieces and assembled in space. In fact, not all the pieces have been launched yet; it is still not complete. Russia launched the first piece and the United States launched the second piece. Most of the other pieces were launched by the United States.

Answer 8

The individual modules are owned by the nations/companies that built them. But everybody gets to use it all.

Answer 9

I own the space station but you are not supposed to know that.

Answer 10

i would think that it would be join owbership

i know USA and Russia are probably the biggest players. NASA might own it, they are the ones that shuttle up new parts, as they did recently.