Players spawn inside a room, cradled with a chest and several stained glass windows, showing the void. In the player's inventory is a book, ISS Field Manual by Dr. Ed Yukator. Behind the chest is a sign, inviting the player into the ISS. Passing through an iron door, players will enter a bizarre room, with many floating levers, buttons, iron bars, and nether brick fences. At the end of the hall are several paintings with iron trapdoors, representing monitors, and behind those a door with a split path. Due to the space station's lack of gravity, however, the path is split vertically and horizontally.
Dropping down through an oak trapdoor surrounded by smooth stone slabs, players will fall down a long tunnel into a chamber made of quartz, with sea lanterns at the bottom. A similar room lies above the entrance. The horizontal path is a hallway lined with blocks of iron and iron trapdoors, leading to a door of green terracotta, with a similar splitting path. In this vertical path are more "monitors" and redstone blocks, such as daylight detectors and redstone repeater, and beyond that a wider chamber. To the right of this room is an airlock, marked by a sign, consisting of a polished andesitepiston door, and near it is another vertical room in the floor. This one is much wider, with many "machines" such as nether brick fences and added light blue carpets.
To the left of the room is a hallway with items such as ladders and pressure plates, leading to a window in the floor marked with blocks of lapis lazuli and white wool. Straight through the preceeding chamber is a fourth path, into a similarly wide room with a door made of cyan wool with blue carpets. Inside is a slightly raised section with green carpets, a wall of birch fences, monitors, levers, and bars. At the end is another wide door lined with blue carpets, with two iron doors leading nowhere installed in the walls, and three more paths. The right path, the Columbus Module, is identified by a tripwire hook, and represents a named laboratory in the real space station, with several item frames and colored wool at the end. The left path is another long hall with floating blocks. Heading straight, Hatch to NASA Shuttle, serving as another exit, this time using an iron door.
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Did you know that humans have been living in space for almost 20 years? Minecraft is celebrating this historic milestone in partnership with NASA with a new International Space Station world for you to explore. Researchers have conducted thousands of tests on board, and you’re next! Design a new module for the station and describe what experiments you’d like to run.
