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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|The Doom Satellite]] from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* The space station over Solaris in ''[[Andrei Tarkovsky|Solaris]]'' is large, but falling apart due to madness and disuse.
* Disney's ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' featured a space station shaped like a crescent moon.
* Disney Channel "Zenon" movies, a lot of the action is based in Space Stations.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** The fleets of the Systems Alliance (human government) are headquartered on the Arcturus space station. Unfortunately, it's one of the first targets of the Reapers in ''Mass Effect 3''. All you find is the debris field.
* Comet Observatory from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.
* The GDSS ''Philadelphia'' from the [[Command
* The game ''[[Startopia]]'' is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|revolved]] around restoring abandoned spinning wheel-shaped stations. Strangely enough, all space stations in the galaxy appear to have the exact same design. The stations have 3 decks: engineering, pleasure, and bio. Biodeck is the innermost one and uses "nanosoil" to recreate any planetary environment to the point where you can actually grow plants in it. The pleasure deck is all for the entertainment of tourists and employees. The engineering deck (outermost) includes power stations, factories, docks, security stations, communicators, sick bays, sleeping pods, bathrooms, etc.
* ''[[Star Trek Elite Force|Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]'' has several space stations, including the Forge and one made up of various ships trapped there welded together. One of the ships making up the latter is a ''Constitution''-class starship from the [[Mirror Universe]]. Fans of TOS get a nostalgia fix walking through the halls of the ship, albeit with the [[The Empire|Terran Empire]] logo on all doors.
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== USSR ==
* There were two different designs of the Salyut<ref>"Salute"</ref> series- the DOS and OPS (Almaz<ref>"Diamond"</ref>) designs. The Almaz stations were experiments into military applications of space stations, and secretly carried antiarcraft guns (suitably modified for space).
** Salyut 1/DOS-1 (1971): Only two crews went up to this. The first (Soyuz 10) couldn't open the door. The second (Soyuz 11) got on board and spent 23 days there, but died during reentry when a malfunctioning valve caused their capsule to depressurise.
** Salyut 2/OPS-1 (1973): An Almaz station. Depressurised on launch after being hit by debris from the Proton launcher, followed by an unknown explosion that destroyed the solar panels less than two weeks after reaching orbit. No attempts to visit.
** Salyut 3/OPS-2 (1974-5): Only had one crew visit. The only Almaz mission to actually do anything military related, it shot off its gun and destroyed a couple of satellites.
** Salyut 4/DOS-4 (1974-77): Twin to the failed and disowned (from the Salyut program) Kosmos 557/DOS-3. Mounted one solar telescope and two x-ray telescopes, used for deep-space observation.
** Salyut 5/OPS-3 (1976-77): The last Almaz station. First crew forced to return early after psychological problems surfaced in the crew. Second crew failed to dock, and third crew conducted scientific studies.
** Salyut 6/DOS-5 (1977-82): First of the second-generation stations, and the first to mount two docking ports to allow resupply while a crew was already aboard. Also demonstrated the viability of in-situ modular station construction when the automated TKS logistics module was successfully docked by remote after the last crew departed, paving the way for Mir and the ISS.
** Salyut 7/DOS-6 (1982-91): Originally the back-up module in case Salyut 6 failed, refurbished and launched due to delays in Mir. System failure led to the batteries failing to charge between crews, forcing an on-site repair after manual docking. Served as a testbed and experimental platform for several Mir technologies.
* Mir (1986-2001): "Peace". This included a core module (DOS-7) that could take four other modules on one end, with another (Kvant) attached on the other end. Later became capable of having the Space Shuttle dock through the use of a universal adapter. One of those modules, Spektr, was rendered unusable after a crew member, attempting to remotely dock an unmanned cargo craft, instead crashed into it, nearly killing everyone on board. First permanently manned station.
* Polyus<ref>"Pole"</ref> (1987): A planned Almaz station, carrying a CO<sub>2</sub> laser designed for anti-satellite warfare. Launched upside down due to space restrictions in the Energia, the intention was to yaw the station 180 degrees before firing rockets to place it in permanent orbit, but a failure in the inertial guidance system caused the maneuvering jets to rotate the craft 360 degrees, sending it careening into the atmosphere over the South Pacific.
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== International ==
* ISS (1998-present): Biggest one yet built and not yet finished. Core consists of components from the planned Russian station Mir-2 (Zarya FGB and Zvezda Service Module) and American station Freedom (Integrated Truss Structure).
** [http://heavens-above.com/ If you want to see where it currently is, go here]
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