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by Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist | November 20, 2012 10:20am ET

The International Space Station is the largest structure ever built in space.

The first module the Russian Zarya module launched from Earth 15 years ago on Nov. 20 1998. International crews have continuously occupied the orbiting space laboratory since 2000, and five space agencies contributed to the building of the structure. [Cosmic Quiz: Do You Know the International Space Station?]

The $100 billion International Space Station has the wingspan of a football field and the living space of a five-bedroom house. It took more than 115 spaceflights of different kinds of spacecraft to build the station, and astronauts and cosmonauts have spent more than 1,000 hours on spacewalks outside of the station.

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The International Space Station set against the backdrop of Earth. (File photo)

Astronauts are growing vegetables in an experimental greenhouse named 'Lada' aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that are safe to eat.

So far, station crews have harvested peas, leafy greens and a variety of dwarf wheat, all of which have now been certified as safe to eat, Russian researcher Margarita Levinskikh from Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems told an annual space conference in Moscow recently.

After undergoing repairs this year, the greenhouse would be re-stocked with rice, tomatoes and bell peppers.

In addition to eventually supplementing the crew's diet, the crops would be analysed to see if they genetically change in space.

The results are encouraging for the space habitat dream, said the institute, a cooperative effort between the institute and the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University.

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