Space Stations, History Of
The history of building and operating space stations in Earth orbit has followed two paths, which did not come together until the late twentieth century with the Internation...
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Space Stations of the Future
International Space Station Alpha, which has been in operation since December 2000, is scheduled for completion in 2006. "Alpha," as it is nicknamed, is beco...
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Space Stations
Overview
The advent of space stations allowed humans to spend extended periods of time in space. They have provided a wealth of information about the challenges humans will face, and mu...
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Space Stations
Less than two decades after the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, lifted off into orbit on October 4, 1957, U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts were living and working in space s...
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Space Station
In the wake of the successful American moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Soviet Union moved to pioneer manned space stations ahead of the Americans. They launched the ...
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Space stations have been a mainstay of human space exploration since the early 1970s. Of the many types of hardware that have been blasted into space-whether orbiting satellites, reusable transport ve...
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Space Stations, History Of
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