The station was designed between 1984 and 1993. Elements of the station were in construction throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe beginning in the late 1980s. The International Space Station Program brings together international flight crews, multiple launch vehicles, globally distributed launch and flight operations, training, engineering, and development facilities, communications networks, and the international scientific research community. The ISS has been assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA. It i is the largest space station ever built. This retro-styled historic space exploration illustration will look great as an art print, notecard, postcard, metal sign, canvas, or mini canvas. To learn more about space travel and what the next big space adventure plans are, check out the official website for NASA.