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 popular culture

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* Space stations and habitats in fiction

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

Released in 1991 ; in this installment, Roger embarks on a wacky time-travel adventure through Space Quest games both past and future.

In Space Quest IV, Roger travels into both the past and future of the game's timeline.

In 1984, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ) was established to oversee the program, which was headed by Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson USAF, a past Director of the NASA Space Shuttle program.

Films produced by current Disney subsidiary The Jim Henson Company have also aired on Disney Channel in the past, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

Despite layoffs over the past decade, much of Brigham City's economy relies on Thiokol, the creator of many missiles, as well as the solid rocket booster for the Space Shuttle.

Piller supported the idea that the repercussions of past episodes should continue to be felt, and that characters should " learn that actions have consequences ", even if such consequences were to lead off in directions Piller had not originally imagined when Deep Space Nine remained in the conceptual stages.

This portion, which extends from Massey Chapel Road past the Chancellor's Ridge subdivision, crosses under Fayetteville Road, crosses Scott King Road and traverses Crooked Creek, is currently under reconstruction by the Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy ( TRTC ) under a grant from the Durham Open Space and Trails Commission.

He played Elim Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a Cardassian tailor, with a past as a spy and an assassin.

* Like the Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets launched from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in the past, the Space Shuttle vehicles are first assembled vertically in the Vehicle Assembly Building on a Mobile Launcher Platform ( MLP ).

The Space Colonies have proudly shaken off their colonial past and now consider themselves independent " Settlements ".

As it ran past midnight, when the time changed from 2400 to 0001 the computer could not handle it and " turned into a pumpkin " according to an interview with Frank Bryan, a Kennedy Space Center Launch Vehicle Operations Engineering staff member.

In the past Fry had an older brother, Yancy ; a dog, Seymour ; and a girlfriend, Michelle, who dumped him in the first episode " Space Pilot 3000 ", just before he was frozen.

Space Shuttle Columbia | Space Shuttle Columbia, returning to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) after the successful STS-32 mission, flies past the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC, secured atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

Over the past two decades, several alternative bookstores have flourished in Kensington Market, including Who's Emma, the Anarchist Free Space, and Uprising Books.

* Popular Science article: Space plane replacement of Space Shuttle and info on past designs including NASP and Clipper-May 2003

Studies conducted by NASA's Johnson Space Center show that at least three of the meteorites contain potential evidence of past life on Mars, in the form of microscopic structures resembling fossilized bacteria ( so-called biomorphs ).

The scientists conducting the study at Johnson Space Center believed that before the end of the year they would find in the meteorites definitive evidence for past life on Mars.

Walker has served as the volunteer chairman of the board of directors of Spacecause, and is past president and a current board director of the National Space Society.

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

Singer moved back to the United States in 1953, where he took up an associate professorship in physics at the University of Maryland, and at the same time served as the director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

In 1987 he took up a two-year post as chief scientist at the Department of Transportation, and in 1989 joined the Institute of Space Science and Technology in Gainesville, Florida where he contributed to a paper on the results from the Interplanetary Dust Experiment using data from the Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite.

Federation II was later picked up by AOL, where it became known simply as " Federation: Adult Space Fantasy ".

One example is reinforced Carbon-Carbon ( RCC ), The light gray material which withstands re-entry temperatures up to 1510 ° C ( 2750 ° F ) and protects the Space Shuttle's wing leading edges and nose cap.

The final result will be a musical “ history of the universe ", from the Big Bang onwards through galaxy and star formation, up until modern times, including images from the Hubble Space Telescope and rhythms derived from the cosmic background radiation, supernovae, quasars, and many other astrophysical phenomena.

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Scott and Mark created a short demo, which ended up becoming the first four rooms of Space Quest I, at which point Ken gave the project a green-light.

Also going by the name Arrivederci Yamato, Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, set in the year 2201, shows the Yamato crew going up against the White Comet Empire, a mobile city fortress called Gatlantis, from the Andromeda Galaxy.

Faculty and alumni of Rochester make up nearly one-quarter of the scientists on the board advising NASA in the development of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace the Hubble Space Telescope as of 2011.

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The winged Space Shuttle orbiter was launched vertically, usually carrying four to seven astronauts ( although eight have been carried ) and up to 50, 000 lb ( 22, 700 kg ) of payload into low Earth orbit ( LEO ).

This causes the solar wind to light up with X-rays, and that's what Swift's XRT sees ", said Stefan Immler, of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which flew the first mission beyond low earth orbit to the Moon, enabling its crew, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders to become the first human beings to see the Earth as a whole, as well as becoming the first to view the Moon up close ( as well as the first to view its farside at all ).

Many end-of-service airliners end up in the Mojave Desert, at the Mojave Air and Space Port ( also known as " The Boneyard ").

* A proposal was made in the late 1990s to name the International Space Station after him, but was not taken up.

The film was dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke up just after takeoff early in 1986.

Captured by Captain Big Nasty of the Outer Space Patrol, he was fitted with a collar that prevented him from bulking up, and also from speaking.

Setting up a new company, Space Research Corporation ( SRC ), Bull became an international artillery consultant.

Marvin was also cast as the referee in Space Jam ( though he did not stay to referee the whole game due to Bupkus beating him up ), and then later had a major villainous role in Looney Tunes: Back in Action where he was hired by the ACME chairman, Mr. Luther J.

As the 21st century started, Space Shuttle flights carried up supplies and additional small equipment, including a portion of the solar power array.