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International Space Station Cutaway diagram of the U.S. Skylab space station with docked Apollo Command and Service modules, showing labeled components such as solar arrays, telescope mount, docking adapter, airlock, instrument units, living quarters, and workshop areas. Skylab in orbit Soyuz T-5 and Salyut 7 Detailed labeled diagram of the completed Mir space station as of 1996, showing its modular structure with labeled components including Kvant 1, Kvant 2, Kristall, Spektr, Priroda, the Mir base block, shuttle docking module, and multiple solar panels. A Soyuz TM crew spacecraft and an unmanned Progress cargo ferry are shown docked to the station. Key features such as attitude-control thrusters, airlock hatch, communication antennas, and docking ports are also identified. Atlantis and Mir ISS crew in December 2000 International Space Station International Space Station Automated transfer vehicle
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Piers Bizony, Island in the Sky: Building the International Space Station (1996), offers a glossy preview of the assembly of the ISS. Brian Harvey, Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier? (2001), is a retrospective on the demise of the Russian space program during the 1990s and on the transition from Mir to the ISS. W. David Compton and Charles D. Benson, Living and Working in Space: A History of Skylab (1983), is the official NASA history of the Skylab program. The Salyut and Mir programs are covered comprehensively in David M. Harland, The Mir Space Station: A Precursor to Space Colonization (1997). Phillip Clark, The Soviet Manned Space Program (1988), provides an excellent portrait of the Salyut era. Marsha Freeman, Challenges of Human Space Exploration (2000), assesses the human and institutional challenges that were faced by the shuttle-Mir program.

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Add new Web site: PBS - Space Station - The Station. Feb 24, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Big Ideas - Space station science. Dec 26, 2025
Add new Web site: NASA - Space Station 20th: Historical Origins of ISS. Sep 05, 2025
Add new Web site: International Journal of Science and Research - The Space Station (PDF). May 03, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 19, 2025
Add new Web site: National Air and Space Museum - The First Space Stations. Mar 15, 2024
Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Space Station. Apr 26, 2022
Article revised and updated. Jun 23, 2021
Removed video. Jun 04, 2021
Article revised and updated. Jun 03, 2021
Added material about Tiangong 2 and Tianhe to the Tiangong section. Feb 05, 2020
Media added. Jan 30, 2019
Media added. Jan 22, 2019
Added material about Tiangong 2 and 3. Sep 15, 2016
Media added. Aug 08, 2016
Add new Web site: European Space Agency - Building the International Space Station. Jun 21, 2016
Updated for docking of Shenzhou 8 with Tiangong 1. Jan 24, 2012
Section on the International Space Station updated. Section on Tiangong added. Sep 29, 2011
Added image of International Space Station from 2001. Sep 08, 2009
Added new Web site: None. Feb 12, 2009
Added new Web site: None. Sep 05, 2008
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Space Station. Sep 15, 2006
Article revised. Jul 08, 2005
Article revised. Apr 15, 2004
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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