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 ).

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 popular culture

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* Space stations and habitats in fiction

These games were never actually created, and only exist within the plot of Space Quest IV.

; Cosmopolitan: Despite the dominance of humanity, a large number of aliens was always implied to exist, inside and outside of Charted Space.

Catholicism is shown to still exist in some form in the 31st century, as the show makes several references to the " Space Pope ": in the opening titles of " Hell is Other Robots " ( stating that the show has been " Condemned by the Space Pope "); in " A Bicyclops Built for Two ", with Bender's rhetorical question " Is the Space Pope reptilian?

In Strato's view, void does exist, but only in the empty spaces between imperfectly fitting particles ; Space is always filled with some kind of matter.

There are also some units that exist in space exclusively ( i. e. cannot make a re-entry into the atmosphere ) such as the Star Cruiser, the Phantom and the Space Bomber.

Human Space colonies do not currently exist.

Unlike films that meld the cartoon world with the real world while at the same time keeping the cartoon characters two dimensional, e. g., Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam etc., Fat Albert takes a twist and transforms the cartoon characters into three dimensional humans, who have to come to grips with the differences that exist between their world and the real world.

Many Tomorrowland classics exist here, such as Autopia, Orbitron and Star Tours, some in an altered way, but Space Mountain is significantly changed.

Whittle wrote in Disembodied Law: Trans People's Legal ( Outer ) Space, " I face an inadequate legal framework in which to exist.

As other weapons exist, notably those using kinetic bombardment, that would not violate these treaties, some private groups and government officials have proposed a Space Preservation Treaty which would ban the placement of any weaponry in outer space.

In addition to the promenade and New World Centre, a number of attractions exist including the Museum of Art, Space Museum, Cultural Centre and the Clock Tower.

* In the novels A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, colonies of various sizes and functions exist on the moon — some the size of cities

Space simulators are different from other sub-genres, and are not generally considered to be simulators, as their simulated objects do not always exist and often disregard the laws of physics.

However, affiliated with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, special research and therapy focuses exist, such as the German Cardiology Center Berlin (, DHZB ) at the Campus Virchow Klinikum, the Center for Space Medicine at the Campus Benjamin Franklin, the German Rheumatology Research Center at the Campus Charité Mitte, and the Center for Molecular and Clinical Cardiology at the Campus Berlin Buch.

Space and time are ideal, subjective, and exist a priori in our all of our representations.

* In the GURPS role-playing game Transhuman Space, Mars is in the process of being terraformed, while several million people live in colonies.

They also have orbital colonies for Space tourists.

* In Space: Above and Beyond chronology, interstellar Chig war begins following the destruction of the Earth Vesta and Tellus colonies in 2063.

The Emperor created the Space Marines, and their leaders the Primarchs, for use in " The Great Crusade ," a two-century effort to re-unite the far-flung colonies of humanity following a " dark age " known as the " Age of Strife " and also as " Old Night ".

The Jem ' Hadar send a Jem ' Hadar representative to Deep Space Nine with the message that no further intrusions into Dominion space will be tolerated, and to hand Major Kira Nerys a list of colonies and ships already eliminated for trespassing.

Earth and its colonies are governed by the UNSC, or the United Nations Space Command.

The show takes place in " Future Century ", where Space Colonies have agreed that rather than having war to decide who controls everyone a fighting tournament is held every four years between the space colonies to decide the right to rule instead.

Later publications tell of the full story, about how Zeon dropped a Space colony ( Gundam ) onto Earth and during the process, killed half of the population of the whole Earth sphere, including the space colonies, which was retconned to be the One Week Battle and the civilian casualties estimated to be much higher ( 4. 8 ~ 5 billion during the war and 3 billion after the war ) during the war due to the aftermath of the disastrous event, just like the atomic bombs and communication interference by the introduction of Minovsky particle.

While most of the human population was forced to relocate to the colonies as part of the Space Colonization Plan, the wealthy and influential members were able to remain on Earth.

O ' Neill's popular science book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space ( 1977 ) combined fictional accounts of space settlers with an explanation of his plan to build space colonies.

Space colonies and ships of the future will almost certainly require a type of ablative armor to withstand space radiation and heat.

Space colonies in the After War timeline ( and those dropped on Earth at the end of the 7th Space War ) are identical to the O ' Neill " Island 3 " type colony cylinders seen in the Universal Century timeline.

* In After War Gundam X, the Seventh Space War ends when virtually all space colonies are dropped on Earth, the largest and most destructive colony drop in the Gundam metaverse.

In the SNES version the player controls a member of the " Space Colonies Allied Forces ", an alliance formed by the independent space colonies.

Set in the year 2027, a time where Interplanetary travel has become commonplace, it starred David Calder as Nathan Spring, commander of the International Space Police Force — nicknamed the “ Star Cops "— who provide law enforcement for the newly developing colonies of the Solar System.