11 Facts About Space station

Space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time, and is therefore a type of space habitat.

China's Tiangong Space Station was scheduled to finish its phase 1 construction by the end of 2022 with the addition of two lab modules.

The last military-use space station was the Soviet Salyut 5, which was launched under the Almaz program and orbited between 1976 and 1977.

In 1929 Herman Potocnik's The Problem of Space Travel was published, the first to envision a "rotating wheel" space station to create artificial gravity.

Unlike previous stations, the Soviet space station Mir had a modular design; a core unit was launched, and additional modules, generally with a specific role, were later added to that.

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Axiom Space station gained NASA approval for the venture in January 2020.

The Space station made a controlled reentry on 19 July 2019 and burned up over the South Pacific Ocean.

Space station is a complex vehicle that must incorporate many interrelated subsystems, including structure, electrical power, thermal control, attitude determination and control, orbital navigation and propulsion, automation and robotics, computing and communications, environmental and life support, crew facilities, and crew and cargo transportation.

International Space Station has a single inflatable module, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, which was installed in April2016 after being delivered to the ISS on the SpaceX CRS-8 resupply mission.

International Space Station has been supported by many different spacecraft.

Mir space station was in orbit from 1986 to 2001 and was supported and visited by the following spacecraft.