International Space Station Alpha, which has been in operation since December 2000, is scheduled for completion in 2006. "Alpha," as it is nicknamed, is becoming the site of extensive human physiological research, life and physical...

In the wake of the successful American moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Soviet Union moved to pioneer manned space stations ahead of the Americans. They launched the first such station, Salyut 1, in April 1971, followed by its first...

Space stations have been a mainstay of human space exploration since the early 1970s. Of the many types of hardware that have been blasted into space-whether orbiting satellites, reusable transport vehicles such as the shuttle, or unmanned robotic...

Less than two decades after the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, lifted off into orbit on October 4, 1957, U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts were living and working in space stations hundred of miles above Earth's surface. The...

A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. So far only low earth orbit (LEO) stations are implemented, also known as orbital stations. A space station is distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its lack...

Permit me to respond to Daniel Greenberg's tiresome diatribe against the space station project {"A Turkey in Space," op-ed, Dec. 17}. The space station is NASA's primary goal for the next decade or two. It is a perfectly reasonable and modest mission for...

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A new inflatable, unmanned test module for a proposed private space station was launched into orbit Thursday aboard a Russian rocket, the U.S. company developing the technology said.The Dnepr rocket carrying the Genesis II module lifted off shortly after 7 p.m. local time from the...

Two Russian cosmonauts climbed out of the international space station Wednesday to install protective panels designed to shield the orbiting outpost from dangerous space debris.Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Oleg Kotov opened a hatch on the Russian side of the space station at 3:05...