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Tonight’s file is the International Space Station — not as a symbol, but as a working system. An orbital laboratory that has to behave like a spacecraft, a power plant, a thermal machine, a water recycler, a data network, and a home… all at once.

We’ll move through the ISS the way a calm flight controller might: starting with scale and orbit rhythm, then touring modules and the truss, then following the invisible infrastructure (power, heat rejection, air and water), before stepping outside for the practical logic of spacewalks — and finally tracing the “other half” of the station: the ground facilities that plan, monitor, and operate this orbiting outpost around the clock.

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References (core sources used for this episode):
NASA — Space Station Facts and Figures: https://www.nasa.gov/international-sp...
NASA — International Space Station Assembly Elements: https://www.nasa.gov/international-sp...
NASA — Ground Facilities: https://www.nasa.gov/international-sp...
NASA — Space Station Spacewalks: https://www.nasa.gov/international-sp...

Additional technical references (background reading used for systems/operations framing):
NASA — ISS Reference Guide (Nov 2010) (PDF):
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploa...
Robinson (AIAA 2008) — ISS research overview
Evans (AIAA 2009) — Research on the ISS overview

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