This Wednesday (November 2, 2016) marked 16 years of humans living and working continuously aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Every so often, you can see the ISS in your night sky. To us on Earth, it looks like a bright star moving quickly above the horizon.
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The rim is the outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire. It makes up the outer circular design of the wheel on which the inside edge of the tire is mounted on vehicles such as automobiles. For example, on a bicycle wheel the rim is a large hoop attached to the outer ends of the spokes of the wheel that holds the tire and tube. The term rim is also used non-technically to refer to the entire wheel, or even to a tire. In the 1st millennium BC, an iron rim was introduced around the wooden wheels o