What is the international space station going to be used for? and how will we benefit?

Answer 1

Poke around on their official site and you can see current and future missions:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html

Here's a site where you can see when it will pass over you! The live graphic is displayed, and there's a link at the top of the page where you can put in your City, State, and Country to see the best viewing time.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

Happy Watching!

Mack

Answer 2

The ISS is going to basically be used to conduct those experiments (mostly science related) that require or give better results in microgravity or zero gravity.

1. Certain crystals grow bigger and better in space so scientists can bring them back on earth and study these bigger better ones that otherwise do not take this form on earth.
2. Microgravity affects the human and other animals' body in more ways than one, these are required to be known if we wish to travel to deep space or live on other planets (moon, mars).
3. Some observations can only be made from space like pollution in the thermosphere etc.

The results from these experiments are going to be used to benefit people around the world. They will help answer a lot of questions asked by scientists back on earth. This results in the development and use of newer and better technologies that can be used to raise our quality of life back on earth and also to help make advances in our quest of space exploration.

Answer 3

It will be used in a similar manner as the Imperial Death Star.

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