The International Space Station is scheduled to operate until 2020.

On Thursday, Space Station residents enjoyed a dinner of turkey, cranberry dressing, stuffing, all of the standard traditional fare for a Thanksgiving meal.

Brazil provided an outside movable experiment pallet.

As well as its contribution in the European Space Agency, Italy is also contributing three logistics modules to move equipment racks and 1 living quarters module.

Canada has supplied robotics, such as the 55-foot 'Canadarm'1 and 2, as well as a mobile cart that moves along tracks on the ISS backbone.

Japan, renowned for it's efficiency in the hi-tech world, is also helping out in making modules, a robotic arm and an external platform.

With 11 space agencies working together as a whole, the European Space Agency has committed itself to the ISS and is spending money and manpower in making many modules as well as other additions, such as a robotic arm, connecting nodes etc.

As well as making quite a few modules, the Russian space agency is contributing its great experience in running space stations.

America is the main country behind the ISS, pumping the most money into it and keeping everything running smoothly.

Since the launch of Expedition 1 on Oct. 31, 2000, humans have had a continuous presence in space.

The solar array wingspan (240 ft) is longer than that of a Boeing 777 200/300 model, which is 212 ft.

ISS has an internal pressurized volume of 33,023 cubic feet, or equal that of a Boeing 747.

More than 115 space flights will have been conducted on five different types of launch vehicles over the course of the station’s construction.

More than 100 telephone-booth sized rack facilities can be in the ISS for operating the spacecraft systems and research experiments.

On this day in 1955, Dr. Emmett Brown discovered the Flux Capacitor after slipping in his bathroom.

Fifty-two computers control the systems on the ISS.  Two iPads were just launched to the ISS via Soyuz, but they will just be used for email and entertainment.

A total of 161 spacewalks have been conducted in support of space station assembly totaling more than 1,015 hours.

The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 pounds, not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window.