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Definition: Space Station |
Space StationNoun1. A manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Military & Defense | Radio station located on an object which is beyond, is intented to go beyond, or has been beyond, the major portion of the Earth's atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Satellite with little or no autonomous propulsion placed in space for a particular scientific or other mission. Source: European Union. (references) |
Space | A habitable orbiting structure with a rotating crew and regular resupply. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A space station is a man-made structure that is designed for people to live on. A space station is distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its lack of major propulsion or landing facilities - instead, other vehicles are used as transport to and from the station. Space stations are designed for medium-term living in orbit, for periods of some months.
Past and present space stations:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Space station."
Synonyms: Space StationSynonyms: space laboratory (n), space platform (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Space Station |
| English words defined with "space station": Skylab. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "space station": Coriolis, coriolis effects ♦ DSS ♦ earth-to-orbit shuttle, Extraterrestrial Environment ♦ feeder connection ♦ Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field ♦ Inertial balance, INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ♦ logistics module ♦ NASA's space-station helmet ♦ Saturn V ♦ UP-LINK ♦ waldo. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's too big to be a space station. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) That's no moon, that's a space station! (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin) This is how we fix things on Russian space station! (Armageddon; writing credit: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Inside the Space Station (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | International Space Station. Credit: NASA. |  | Space Station Freedom Centrifuge Facility Mockup. Credit: NASA. |
 | Skylab Space Station. Credit: NASA. |  | Space Station Mock-up in Neutral Buoyancy Simulator. Credit: NASA. |
 | Lucid on Treadmill in Russian Mir Space Station. Credit: NASA. |  | Space Station Centrifuge. Credit: NASA. |
 | Model of Almaz Space Station. Credit: NASA. |  | The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after a 12-day mission for its crew to work on the international space station. (P.; photo by Jim Ross).. |
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Economic History | Brazil | During former President Clinton's October 1997 visit to Brazil, several agreements were signed, including an Education Partnership Agreement, which enhances and expands cooperative initiatives in such areas as standards-based education reform, use of technology, and professional development of teachers; a Mutual Legal Assistance treaty--ratified in 2001; and agreements on cooperation in energy, the international space station, national parks, and government reform. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Instead of building weapons in space, Russian scientists will help us build the international space station. |
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| Language | Translations for "space station"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | космическа станция. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 空"站 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rumstation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ruimtestation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | avaruusasema. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | station spatiale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Raumstation (station). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαστημικός σταθμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | űrállomás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stazione spaziale, laboratorio spaziale (Skylab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 宇宙基地 , 宇宙ステーション . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うちゅうきち, うちゅうステーション. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stashoon spoar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acespay ationstay estação espacial. (various references) estación espacial. (various references) rymdstation. (various references) uzay istasyonu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-o-p-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: constipates. | |
-2 letters: anapestics, antipastos, apostacies, apostatise, caseations, constipate, passionate. | |
-3 letters: anapestic, antepasts, antipasto, apostates, associate, astatines, canoeists, capstones, caseation, castanets, cattiness, cessation, estancias, nepotists, pancettas, patinates, pittances, sanitates, saponites, scantiest, sonicates, tacitness, taconites. | |
-4 letters: aconites, anapests, anopsias, antepast, antsiest, apatetic, apatites, apostate, astatine, astonies, canoeist, canopies, capiases, capitate, capstans, capstone, captains, captions, castanet, cineasts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-o-p-s-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: procrastinates. | |
+4 letters: emancipationists. | |
+5 letters: compartmentalises. | |
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