Space Station

A space station is a spaceship capable of supporting a team that is designed to remain in space for a longer period and other spacecraft can dock. A space station is different from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing facilities.

Space stations used to study the effects of prolonged space flight on the human body and to provide platforms for greater number and length of available scientific studies on other spacecraft.

Space stations have been used for both military and civilian. The last military use of space station was Salyut 5, which was used by the Almaz program of the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1977. Space stations have been planned since at least 1869, when Everett Hale wrote of a "brick moon" in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine. Space Stations, was also later, Constantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth intention.

List of space stations:

Soviet Space Stations come in two types, Civil Space Station Durable (DOS) And The Almaz Military Stations.

Space Station	Station Snaps	Station Summary

Salyut 1.		On April 19th,1971 history was created by USSR launching the first unmanned space station Salyut1(DOS-1) by a Proton-K. The purpose of Salyut was to test ... Read More..

Salyut 2		Salyut 2 was launched in the year 1973 as part of the Salyut program and Almaz was the first military space station to fly. On ... Read More..

Skylab		Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab was launched unmanned by Saturn 5 rocket with a mass of 169,750 pounds. Skylab orbited the earth from 1973 ... Read More..

Salyut 3		Soviet Space Station, Salyut 3 was launched on June 25, 1974 by a three stage Proton Launch Vehicle and it was the first successful ... Read More..

Salyut 4		On December 26th 1974,Salyut 4 was launched into an orbit with an apogee 355km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. The second stay lasted ... Read More..

Salyut 6		Salyut 6 was the eight one as part of the Salyut programme that was launched on 29th September 1977 by a Proton rocket. It had ... Read More..

Salyut 7		Salyut 7 was launched in the year 1982 and was the backup vehicle for Slayut 6 with similar equipments and capabilities. Salyut 7 was part ... Read More..

Mir		During the period from 1986 to 2001,Mir was a space station operated by Soviet Union and then by Russia. It holds the record for the ... Read More..

ISS		Expedition Crews operates ISS and has uninterrupted human presence for the past 11 years and 11 days. The station is maintained in orbit between 278 ... Read More..

Tiangong 1		Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-1 is a Chinese space laboratory that has the docking capabilities needed to support a larger space station complex. In the year ... Read More..

Genesis I		The private American firm Bigelow Aerospace designed and built Genesis 1 which was launched in the year 2006. Genesis 1 was the first module to ... Read More..

Genesis II		Second experimental space habitat Genesis II was built by the firm Bigelow Aerospace and launched in the year 2007.It is comparatively different from traditional rigid ... Read More..

DOS-2		DOS-2 designation was given to a space station, Salyut was launched as part of a program that has been lost in a launch failure on ... Read More..

Cosmos 557		One of the space station in Salyut program is DOS-3 and the name Kosmos 557 was given to it. It was originally intended to be ... Read More..

Salyut 5		Salyut 5, also known as OPS-3 was a Soviet space station. Launched in 1976 as part of the Salyut program, it was the third and ... Read More..