Every day since November 2000, six men and women have been living and working aboard the International Space Station. The astronauts' 12-hour days are spent studying and conducting scientific research. On a recent voyage, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli carved out personal time to make 150 photographs of the space station. Nespoli worked off detailed instructions sent to him from Earth by Roland Miller, a dean at the College of Lake County and noted space program photographer.

Miller has had his photos of abandoned space program facilities and the space shuttle program on exhibit at art museums and space science centers across the country. He said documenting the space station, or ISS, was the logical next step. "The ISS is one of the most advanced structures that humans ever have built, but it will not last forever," Miller said. "We need to photograph what the ISS looked like, and that includes the interior as well as the exterior."