Space stations in the past ( up to 200 years before the action of Shards of Honor ) were null-g or used centrifugal force to generate partial gravity, but now they use artificial gravity.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

In the 27th century humans have colonised nearly 900 worlds, have living, sentient starships as well as the conventional kind, and are also living in Asteroid communities and in large, living Space stations.

Space stations typically carry enough lifeboats only for personnel down to, and including, the rank of Gil.

Space stations and human spacecraft in orbit are also satellites.

Additionally, various episodes show Starfleet operating a series of starbases throughout Federation territory, either built as planet-side facilities or as orbital docking stations ( notably the titular installation in the Deep Space Nine series ).

Space stations exist and colonies have been established on the planet Venus.

two space stations are in orbit ; the International Space Station, and China's Tiangong 1, ( which successfully launched on September 29, 2011, after failing in its prior August launch attempt ) Previous stations include the Almaz and Salyut series, Skylab and most recently Mir.

Space stations are used to study the effects of long-term space flight on the human body as well as to provide platforms for greater number and length of scientific studies than available on other space vehicles.

Space stations have been used for both military and civilian purposes.

Space stations have been envisaged since at least 1869 when Everett Hale wrote about a ' brick moon ' in Atlantic monthly magazine.

Space stations were also later envisaged by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth.

There are also planned stations in Melbourne and Ft. Pierce, connecting the Space Coast and Treasure Coast regions with the rest of the country.

Ultimately, experience gained from the Salyut stations went on to pave the way for multimodular space stations such as Mir and the International Space Station, with each of those stations possessing a Salyut-derived core module at its heart.

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In 1953, Oberth returned to Feucht, Germany, to publish his book Menschen im Weltraum ( Men in Space ), in which he described his ideas for space-based reflecting telescopes, space stations, electric-powered spaceships, and space suits.

Beginning with Space Invaders, video arcade games also started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations and many other retail establishments looking for extra income.

The use of Lunar Orbiters for tracking to evaluate the Manned Space Flight Network tracking stations and Apollo Orbit Determination Program was successful, with three Lunar Orbiters ( 2, 3, and 5 ) being tracked simultaneously from August to October 1967.

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* Space stations and habitats in fiction

The Bubbleworld concept was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in his fictional Known Space stories, describing such worlds as the primary habitats of the Belters, a civilization who had colonized the Asteroid Belt.

There have been many other wheel-shaped space habitats in science fiction, such as the Ringworld or the Earth-orbiting Space Station V invented by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick and depicted in Kubrick's 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Once flight-qualified, habitats ( also referred to as " subrack payloads ") would be carried to the Space Station aboard a Space Shuttle ( housed in the Orbiter Middeck ), and transferred to a specially-designed Habitat Holding Rack, which would provide them with the cooling air, power, and data connections required.

Their posse, Spaghetti Funk, includes other popular performers like Space One and pop rappers Gemelli DiVersi.

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

Joysticks became especially popular with the mainstream success of Space flight simulator games like X-Wing and Wing Commander, as well as the " Six degrees of freedom " 3D shooter Descent.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

A two-part return to the Mirror Universe, made popular by The Original Series and Deep Space Nine, titled " In a Mirror, Darkly ," was made late in the fourth season, which took place in the parallel dimension.

The British director had no feature film experience, but had directed several episodes of Star Trek, including the popular Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " and the Deep Space Nine double-length pilot episode " Emissary ".

His next series, Lost in Space, a space opera which aired from 1965 to 1968, became popular with audiences, and quickly led to two other sci-fi favorites in 1966 ; Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.

In 1978 Toshihiro Nishikado, a designer at Taito, created Space Invaders which became the company's most popular title ever and one of the most memorable games in arcade history, responsible for beginning the golden age of arcade video games.

In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Gagarin was ranked as the # 6 most popular space hero, tied with Star Trek's fictional Capt.

** Space Mountain ( Magic Kingdom ) opens at Walt Disney World and to this day remains one of the parks most popular attractions.

* In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Grissom was ranked as the # 9 ( tied with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard ) most popular space hero.

This juvenile novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Kirk was ranked as the # 6 ( tied with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ) most popular space hero.

Space Invaders ( 1978 ), Galaxian ( 1979 ), Pac-Man ( 1980 ), Battlezone ( 1980 ), Defender ( 1980 ), and Donkey Kong ( 1981 ) were especially popular.

In 1929 Herman Potočnik's The Problem of Space Travel was published, and remained popular for over 30 years.

Nimoy is also a frequent and popular reader for " Selected Shorts ", an ongoing series of programs at Symphony Space in New York City ( that also tours around the country ) which features actors, and sometimes authors, reading works of short fiction.

* The popular Epcot ride, Mission Space, takes place this year.

The most popular museum is the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space, which recorded almost 150, 000 visitors in 2004.

" She had an immediate rapport with the media, and the Teacher in Space Project received tremendously popular attention as a result.

While many people believe that Kirby was the primary designer of the show ( mainly due to his similarly themed Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth ), the main characters were in fact designed by fellow comic book writer-artist Alex Toth, who also designed the popular character Space Ghost for Saturday morning television.

It also brought anime into prominence in late 1990s with its Toonami action block and aired late night programming such as the Midnight Run, ToonHeads and Space Ghost Coast to Coast which was more popular with older audiences and lead way for the creation of its young adult late night block Adult Swim in 2001.

Since 1985, the Seattle International Film Festival has awarded the Golden Space Needle award each year to the festival's most popular movie.

Treasure maps have taken on numerous permutations in literature and film, such as the stereotypical tattered chart with an over-sized " X " ( as in " X marks the spot ") to denote the treasure's location, first made popular by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island ( 1883 ), a cryptic puzzle ( in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug " ( 1843 )), or a tattoo as seen in the video game The Space Adventure-Cobra: The Legendary Bandit ( 1991 ) and the film Waterworld ( 1995 ).

" Space cakes " is a common name for muffins, brownies, and cookies baked with marijuana, which are very popular in the Netherlands, specifically Amsterdam.