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A space station is a scientific laboratory that orbits around the Earth. Only currently operational space station is the International Space Station (ISS).
A '''space station''' is a scientific laboratory inhabited by humans that orbits around the [[Earth]].
[[category:astronomy]]
Currently the only operational space station is the [[International Space Station]] (ISS), although the space program of the USSR, and later the Russians had 6 Salyut Stations, and later the station [[Mir]]. The American Space Program put aloft [[Skylab]] in 1973 atop the last Saturn V rocket, and was serviced from the same command modules as were used in [[Project Apollo]]. Skylab orbited the earth until 1979 although the last manned flight was in 1974.
In Science Fiction Space Stations have been used extensively, including [[Star Trek]]: Deep Space 9, Babylon5 as well as in many novels.
[[category:Space Race]]