celebrates 15 years of human life in space

Continuous human habitation in space began 15
years ago, when three people stepped onto an orbiting
laboratory that space agencies see as a springboard to
Mars .
On November 2, 2000, a Russian Soyuz rocket docked at
the International Space Station carrying Expedition 1,
made up of NASA astronaut William Shepherd and
Roscosmos cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei
Krikalev.
Read the transcript of CNN's live coverage of Expedition
1 in November 2000
For 136 days, 17 hours and 9 minutes, they lived in the
narrow quarters of the station as it zipped silently
around Earth at 5 miles per second, 250 miles above its
surface.