NASA officials noted that Saturday marked the 24-year anniversary of the agency and its partners maintaining a permanent human presence in space.
“To put this in perspective, this means that anyone under the age of 24 has never lived a day without humans continuously living in space,” Dana Weigel, NASA’s ISS program manager, said in a Saturday tweet.
“After more than a quarter of a century of operations, the space station continues to serve as a world-class laboratory, experiencing many firsts, scientific breakthroughs, and improving life on our home planet every day,” Weigel said.