The International Space Station

Senior Division
Group Website
By: Michael Lamia, Dev Patale,
Tara Patale, and Michael Schutzman

At the start of the year, our group decided to research the Space Race and its relations to
the Cold War between the United States and USSR. However, after committing ourselves to the
topic and doing substantial research, we decided it would be much more beneficial if we focused
on the International Space Station for our project, which was born through the aftermath of the
Space Race. Moving our topic to a somewhat more recent idea which continues to positively
impact us helps our group relate to it and better strengthen our website.
We began conducting our research on the International Space Station by watching
Youtube videos on its inner workings and how each component is crucial to the overall
functioning of the station. Multimedia presentations such as the videos found on Youtube were
prominent in our general understanding of the topic. The NASA website proved to be extremely
useful in our understanding of the International Space Station, we were able to read countless
articles on innovations, expeditions, and experiments that contributed to all our website pages.
Also, our group was able to conduct interviews with astronauts such as Thomas Jones, as well as
NASA spokeswomen such as Brandi Dean. In addition, one of our most prominent interviews

was with Greg Olsen, a self-made millionaire who funded his own trip to the International Space
Station via the company, Space Adventures. He was able to provide us with information on the
relations between the public and private sectors as well as gave us insight on the tedious training
process that is required before visiting the ISS.
We chose to do a group website because we, as a group, are technologically oriented and
it gives us more freedom to express our ideas in an organized and creative fashion. The
International Space Station is primarily a technological feat of the global cooperation between
nations of the world, so the topic would be best presented in a technological media, such as a
website. Our presentation of the ISS on a group website helps reflect who we are as students, as
well as helps portray the image of technological innovations and feats that were accomplished by
and for the ISS.
The International Space Station is a spacecraft, a home where astronauts live, and a
science lab which many countries worked together to build. The space station is made of many
pieces that were put together in space by astronauts and for the astronauts. NASA uses the station
to learn about living and working in space, which will inspire future expeditions farther into
space, such as an expedition to Mars. The ISS functions as many things, but most importantly, it
is a symbol of light in an infinite tunnel of exploration and social improvement.