Space station celebrates 10 years

NASA couldn't have staged it any better: 10 people in orbit for yesterday's 10th anniversary of the world's most elaborate and expensive housing project, the international space station.

On Nov 20, 1998, the first part of the space station was launched by the Russians from Kazakhstan. NASA followed up two weeks later with piece No 2 carried up by a space shuttle. Astronauts and cosmonauts moved in two years later, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The space station has grown into a behemoth outpost 355 km up, home to three people at any given time - soon to be six.