The International Space Station if reduced
to two dimensions is roughly the size of a soccer pitch, at
about 73 meters (239 feet) in length and 109 meters (356 feet)
in width. It orbits the Earth at an altitude of 330 to 435 km
(205 to 270 miles).
Incidentally,
In 2001, Pizza Hut paid the Russian space agency $1 million to
send a pizza to the ISS, Including a Pizza Hut logo on a Soyuz
rocket and a video of a cosmonaut Yuri Usachov giving a
thumbs up after eating some of the pizza. The space pizza, per
the BBC, “spending a long time in space has the effect of
deadening the taste buds, so extra salt and spices were added
to the pizza and salami had to be used as pepperoni lacked the
necessary shelf life, growing moldy.”
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