It was visited by 4 Arab astronauts “Roscosmos” publishes statistics on the work of the International Space Station during 25 years

The Roscosmos Foundation published statistical information about the International Space Station and its work, the number of spacecraft it received, and the number of astronauts who were on board during 25 years.

On November 20, 1998, Russia launched the Proton-K transport rocket, which carried the Zarya module, which is the first building block of the station, into orbit. This was followed by the US launch of Unity on December 7, 1998.

The Foundation indicates in its report that the number of people who have been on board the space station during a quarter century has reached 273 people from 21 countries - 59 from Russia, 165 from the United States, 11 from Japan, 9 from Canada, 5 from Italy, 4 from France, 4 from Germany, and 2 From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2 from the UAE, and one each from Spain, South Africa, Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, Malaysia, South Korea, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Britain and Israel.

Russian astronauts Yuri Malnichenko, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Aleg Kononenko were on board the station five times, and Russians Sergei Prokopenko and Dmitry Petilin and American Francisco Rubio spent the longest period on board the space station, 370 days, 22 hours and 16 seconds.

During a quarter of a century, the space station received 152 cargo vehicles - 88 Russian "Progress", 30 American "Dragon", 20 Cygnus, 5 European and 9 Japanese. It also received 115 manned vehicles - 68 Russian and 47 American. And astronauts went out into open space 269 times. Since November 2, 2000, the space station has been inhabited with the beginning of the first long-term mission.

It should be noted that 15 countries are participating in the International Space Station project: Russia, the United States, Japan, Canada, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Switzerland and Sweden.

The station is divided into two parts, Russian and American. The Russian segment includes the Zarya and Zvezda modules, the Poisk and Rassvet small research modules, the Naoka multi-purpose laboratory module and the Prichal axial module. The American segment includes the Unity, Harmony and Tranquility modules, the Destiny and Columbus laboratory modules, the Quest airlock cabin and the BEAM inflatable module, in addition to the Japanese Kibo experimental module and the European Cupola and Leonardo multi-purpose survey module.

Musk sues a famous content monitoring company over allegations of Nazi X posts!

On Monday, social platform X filed a lawsuit against media watchdog group Media Matters.

It claimed that the organization defamed the platform after publishing a report, which said that advertisements for major brands appeared with posts promoting Nazism.

In the lawsuit filed in a US District Court in Texas, With extreme posts.

The Media Matters report misrepresented the typical experience to X “with the intent to harm X and its business,” the company said in the lawsuit.

The watchdog group did not immediately respond to a request for comment after the lawsuit was filed.

In an interview with Reuters earlier on Monday, Angelo Carosone, president of Media Matters, said the nonprofit's findings contradicted statements by X that it had introduced safety safeguards to prevent ads from appearing alongside harmful content.

Advertisements for IBM, Comcast and Oracle only appeared alongside hateful content to a single viewer, which the company said was Media Matters, X said in the lawsuit.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that his office was opening an investigation into Media Matters and that he was "deeply troubled" by allegations that the group manipulated data on X.

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, a large number of advertisers have left the platform, concerned about some of Musk's controversial posts and the layoffs of employees who worked to supervise the content.

Reuters previously reported that the platform's US advertising revenues have fallen by at least 55% year-over-year every month since Musk's acquisition.

It is noteworthy that Elon Musk was subjected to severe criticism for allegations that he described an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that a user posted in a tweet on X, as “the actual truth.”

Musk defended X's content policies and appeared to mock critics who claim the platform harbors hate content.