The International Space Station is a dream that has been in the minds of NASA scientists for quite some time. In 1984, president Ronald Reagan helped create the International Space Station Team. Sixteen countries joined the effort to create a space station, with the brunt of the costs and the work shouldered by the United States and Russia.

Members of the International Space Station Team
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
The Netherlands
Norway
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
The United Kingdom
The United States

More than 900 researchers from those and other countries are developing experiments that will be carried out on the International Space Station in biotechnology, combustion science, fluid physics, materials science, life sciences, engineering and technology, and Earth sciences.

So far, there have been only 3 lauches of International Space Station Components into space. The two modules Unity and Zarya are the only pieces of the Space Station orbiting earth as of now.