Wowsa, those boys and girls have themselves quite a penthouse suite up there. All along I thought they were cramped into a small capsule but an approx 57,000 sq ft pad is quite impressive.
Size. During its third year of human residency, the habitable pressurized volume of the station was equal to the habitable space in an 1,800-square-ft. three-bedroom house with 8-ft. ceilings.Hmmm... maybe they should rename it the Internatiional Space Mansion? ;-)The habitable pressurized volume on the completed station is expected to be 43,000 cubic feet. That would be about the volume of three average American houses, each one containing about 2,000 square ft. with 7-ft. ceilings for a total of around 14,000 cubic ft. each. That pressurized volume also would be roughly equivalent to the interior of a 747 jumbo jet.
The station remains the largest, most sophisticated. most powerful spacecraft ever built. It has a mass of almost 400,000 lbs.
The majority of the power, cooling, volume and research capacity on the station have been supplied by the United States.