space station
noun
: a large artificial satellite designed to be occupied for long periods and to serve as a base (as for scientific observation)
called also space platform
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After the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, NASA partnered with two commercial companies -- Boeing and SpaceX -- to ferry astronauts to and from the space station.
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Brendan Byrne, NPR, 5 June 2024
Lori Garver, a former NASA official who pushed for NASA to hire private companies to take astronauts to and from the space station and has repeatedly praised SpaceX’s performance, said she too has been surprised by the company’s aggressiveness.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 28 May 2024
The space station's main objective was to show that humans could live in space for long periods.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
But for years to come, the Soviet Union would continue to best the United States in practically every important measure of space achievement, including the first space walk, the longest space walk, the first woman in space, the first space station, and the longest time logged in space.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
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Brendan Byrne, NPR, 5 June 2024
Lori Garver, a former NASA official who pushed for NASA to hire private companies to take astronauts to and from the space station and has repeatedly praised SpaceX’s performance, said she too has been surprised by the company’s aggressiveness.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 28 May 2024
The space station's main objective was to show that humans could live in space for long periods.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
But for years to come, the Soviet Union would continue to best the United States in practically every important measure of space achievement, including the first space walk, the longest space walk, the first woman in space, the first space station, and the longest time logged in space.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
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“Space station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20station. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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