The completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 460 metric tons. It will measure 110 meters across and 90 meters long, with almost an acre of solar panels to provide electrical power to six state-of-the-art laboratories. The Space Station will provide living space for up to seven astronauts and scientists. The pressurized living and working space aboard the completed station will be more than 1303 cubic meters, roughly equivalent to the passenger cabin volume of two 747 jetliners.

The station will be in an orbit with an average altitude of 400 kilometres. This orbit allows the station to be reached by the launch vehicles of all the international partners to provide a robust capability for the delivery of crews and supplies. The orbit also provides excellent Earth observations with coverage of 85 percent of the globe and over flight of 95 percent of the population.

Construction in orbit began in November 1998 with the launch of Zarya, the Functional Cargo Block, from Russia on a Russian Proton rocket. A total of 43 launches will be required to complete the facility in 2006.

The latest Omnimax film "Space Station" brings the audience to this greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the Moon. The audience will experience for themselves life in zero gravity aboard the station. The astronauts share with us the tensions and triumphs of their challenge: hours of painstaking teamwork in the deadly vacuum of space.