For centuries, people have looked up at the night sky, seeing the vast world beyond our own.

Commented [1]: Ryan and team:

They wondered what it would be like to look back at the Earth from the moon, or the sun, or
from a star far out in the universe. Would the borders between nations be visible, or the
changing of the seasons? Could you eat and sleep? Would you be able to breath? How would
our bodies react, and do the laws of science differ or remain the same in space as they are on
Earth? What would it be like to live in space?
As of November 2000, there has not been a day where a human has not been in space. They
live, eat, sleep, and work and conduct scientific experiments to solve the many questions that
space has to offer. Within the last decade, 15 nations have come together to design, build, and
occupy the largest and longest inhabited object to ever exist and orbit outside of Earth. They
have set aside their boundaries and differences to create this incredible man-made spacecraft
and to conduct research both inside and outside of this engineering masterpiece. This is the
International Space Station.
Great research!!
I'm assuming most of this will be voice over.
Please "time" it out by reading it, and see how long this
VO/likely will last.
Edit where you can if needed for time. If you're in w/in
time requirements... Please form a 2 column script and
start to plug potential SOURCE VIDEO on the LEFT
side. A key to this is ensuring we ONLY use NASA
video.
For example, when you say "Dating back to the early
19th century, writers, artists etc.... -what will you have
from the archive to visually see to match that audio?"
Let's start working on that Friday so Much of next week
is spent organizing the 2 column, downloading the right
"clips" and seeing the full picture.

Dating back to early in the 19th century, writers, artists, and scientists from around the world Commented [2]: Will you shoot video of someone
looking up at stars? think about what video you will
have given their idea and visions on the idea of space travel and their opinions on life in space. have here
In the early 1960s, as human spaceflight programs in the United States and Russia began to
Commented [3]: maybe a map of nations involved
take off, engineers and designers began to draw their own notions on a possible space station (maybe you can use the after effect I was about to
based on the current technology that they had. The Soviet Union was the first to get an orbiting teach a lesson on making one state black and white,
and others color... maybe we can do that here). I'll
space station established and into action, Salyut I, which was launched in 1971. The United show you.
States would soon follow with their first space station, Skylab, which was assembled from
Commented [4]: who will you show? where will that
unused Apollo rocket parts in space, in 1973. Three crews flew aboard Skylab for a total of 171 archival pic come from?
days, conducting scientific experiments and observations, which would go to show the potential Commented [5]: Russia stock footage?
of space research. A temporary space station was created on July 17, 1975, when an American
Commented [6]: skylab? archival video?
Apollo command module spacecraft docked with a Russian Soyuz ship. Apollo-Soyuz was a
Commented [7]: do we have this in the archiveS they
prime example of cooperation by the superpowers of the world, and it was the foundation of the
gave us?
global partnership that would result in the agreement and construction of the International
Space Station. Commented [8]: footage of the Russain Soyuz?

America would resume the flight of men and women into space with the launch of the first space
shuttle on April 12, 1981. In his presidential State of the Union address in 1984, president Commented [9]: video of this launch?
Ronald Reagan announced the construction of the permanent space station, Space Station Commented [10]: do we have this? Can we throw to
Freedom, which was agreed and signed by 11 nations and NASA to participate in the his actual soundbite?
development and production. In February, 1986, the Soviets began construction of their own
space station, Mir. By October 1990, budget changes issued by Congress mandated a complete Commented [11]: MIR video?
redesign of the Space Station Freedom project, with heavy emphasis on affordability. In 1993,
NASA was directed to maximize the new stations scientific capabilities, and leverage Russia’s
considerable experience in space station operations by inviting Russian participation in the
American space station project. The result was a global partnership made up of 15 countries
that would work through differences in culture, language, politics, and design and operation
styles. During Phase 1 of the space station program, from February 1994 to June 1998, space
shuttles made 11 visits to Mir, and 7 American astronauts lived aboard the Russian station. The
experience gained was very important, and it set the stage for the design, development, and
construction of the greatest engineering project in the history of mankind - a state of the art
research laboratory orbiting our planet and the largest and most complex object ever assembled
in space - The International Space Station.
Commented [12]: will we end here? Maybe state how
critical the ISS station is to what we now know about
space? And to the future of space exploration? and
then end?
*Also, let's try to make the VO a bit more audible,
maybe less essay style of writing. I think it's well
written, but reads somewhat like an essay. Put your
voices in it.