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space station
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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space sta·tion
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a large artificial satellite used as a long-term base for manned operations in space.
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Money problems abound as NASA gears up for construction; Space stations: The organization is forced to slash major projects
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 7/9/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...gearing up for another round of space station construction - this time to install...would limit the international space station to a crew of three, its current...in quick succession, snarling space station operations. The shoulder joint...
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Space stations today Walking on air after job well done
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 3/15/2005; ; 554 words
; ...the new International Space Station (ISS) With a joyous...149; In 39 years of space activities some 3...orbit. • Space stations orbit the earth at an...time. The first space stations were Salyut (USSR 1971...USA 1973). The space station MIR (USSR) was ...
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Craters Ahead.(future of space stations)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 3/19/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...working with the Russian Space Agency to broker commercial...save the Russian space station. Now, with Mir gone...already been living in space for years. Cosmonauts...manned ships to orbital stations 30 years ago. This...building modules for the space station. NASA came to the ...
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Zimmerman, Robert Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers...and how the space station existed in that...Aeronautics and Space Administration...Braun both saw the space station as an important...the Soviet space stations, the Salyut missions...Brezhnev used the ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Who needs men? (unmanned space stations)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/12/1988; 700+ words
; ...for work on a permanently manned space station. There was also a smaller item...private firm to have designed a space station, the open bidding is a formality...venture in space. The little space station is the brainchild of Dr Maxime...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SOVIETS PUT SPACE STATIONS ON SALE.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/6/1991; 700+ words
; ...including a copy of its successful Mir space station, are for sale in the West. But...NASA's long discarded Skylab space station of the mid-1970s. Dula said...if it decides not to buy a Mir space station, by using the Energia rather...
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Ten Space Stations in World History
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 11/2/2000; 371 words
; ...look at the ten space stations in world history...s first space station launched by the...first U.S. space station launched in May...All Soviet space stations launched in the...Two Soviet space stations; the former was...generation space ...
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Backgrounder: Russian Space Stations' Development History (1)
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/16/2001; 568 words
; ...as the date of the space station Mir's destruction...s developing space stations is provided. The station Mir lasting out its...the first and last station of the third generation...grew from the Salyut stations of the late 1970s...
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China now capable of launching space stations.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 10/24/2003; 678 words
; ...successfully launched a manned space mission in the middle...tonne modules of space stations in the future, the...launching modules of space stations in the future, Xinhua...tonne module of space station after the upgrading...it to launch a space station capable ...
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Backgrounder: Russian Space Stations' Development History (2)
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/16/2001; 557 words
; ...together with the orbital station. Kosmos-1443 performed...for transfer to the orbiting station, and a capsule aboard it...months after the start of the space mission. A transfer tunnel...orient and stabilize orbiting stations during scientific experiments...complex is a fundamentally new ...
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Space Stations, History of
Book article from: Space Sciences
Space Stations, History of The history of building and operating space stations in Earth orbit has followed...with the International Space Station. Russia (before 1991...and operating expendable stations that could not be resupplied...
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Space Stations of the Future
Book article from: Space Sciences
Space Stations of the Future International Space Station Alpha, which has been...either join the Alpha Station partnership or build a space station of its own. If the...programs on new space stations. And future orbiting...
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Visions Of Space Stations
Book article from: Space Sciences
VISIONS OF SPACE STATIONS The first description of a habitable satellite...scientist Wernher von Braun popularized the space station concept. Von Braun's rotating wheel...high, became the most widely recognized space station concept.
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International Space Station
Book article from: Space Sciences
International Space Station There have long been dreams...permanently inhabited base or station in space. In 1957 it...the goal of a space station in orbit was secondary...programs. Previous Space Stations Shortly before the National...
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The International Space Station
Book article from: Space Exploration: Triumphs and Tragedies
The International Space Station I am directing NASA to develop...major role in the project. The space station became an international venture...finally began on the International Space Station (ISS). After five years a small...
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