Space stations
Here are entered works dealing with manned installations existing for specific functions, such as servicing space ships, etc., in orbit around the earth or other natural extraterrestrial bodies. Works dealing with communities established in space or on natural extraterrestrial bodies are entered under Space colonies. Works dealing with manned installations existing for specific functions on natural extraterrestrial bodies are entered under Extraterrestrial bases.
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Broader terms:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Space stations -- Automation
- Space stations -- Congresses
- Space stations -- Fiction
- Space stations -- Government policy
- Space stations -- Human factors
- Space stations -- Protection
- Space stations -- Technological innovations
- Space industrialization
- Manned orbital laboratories
- Manned space stations
- Orbiting vehicles
- Satellite vehicles
- Space cars
- Space laboratories
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Spacelab, An International Short-Stay Orbiting Laboratory (1983), by Walter Froelich (illustrated HTML at NASA)- The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor, by Hermann Noordung (PDF at NASA)
- Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Space Resources and Space Settlements (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979), ed. by John Billingham, William Gilbreath, and Brian O'Leary, contrib. by Gerard K. O'Neill (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
- Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Space Station 1 (New York: Ace Books, c1957), by Frank Belknap Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Space Tug (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster
- Space Platform (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)
- Civilian Space Stations and the U.S. Future in Space (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (1997), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Engineering Research and Technology Development on the Space Station (1996), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon (c2010), by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
- Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)
- The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Commercial Lunar Propellant Architecture: A Collaborative Study of Lunar Propellant Production (ca .2018), ed. by David A. Kornuta (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Space colonies- Toward Distant Suns (originally published 1979), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
- Colonies in Space (originally published 1977), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
- Space Colonies (1977), ed. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)
- Space Settlements: A Design Study (Washington: Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977), ed. by Richard D. Johnson and Charles H. Holbrow (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
- Space Resources and Space Settlements (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979), ed. by John Billingham, William Gilbreath, and Brian O'Leary, contrib. by Gerard K. O'Neill (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
- Fire With Fire (2013), by Charles E. Gannon (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free library)
- Mars is My Destination: A Science-Fiction Adventure (New York: Pyramid Books, 1962), by Frank Belknap Long
- Star Born (c1957), by Andre Norton
- The Colonists (as published in If, June 1954), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Seas of Venus (2002), by David Drake (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
- The Defiant Agents (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, c1962), by Andre Norton
- Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn (HTML at baen.com)
- The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 (London: E. Stock, 1900), by Robert W. Cole
- The Moon Colony (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1937), by William Dixon Bell (Gutenberg text)
- The Creatures of Man, by Howard L. Myers, ed. by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
- Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper
- The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, by Eric Flint and Dave Freer (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- West of the Sun (c1953), by Edgar Pangborn (Gutenberg text)
- The Space Pioneers, by Carey Rockwell, contrib. by Willy Ley, illust. by Louis S. Glanzman (Gutenberg text)
- Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016), by Chris Pak
- Police Your Planet (c1956), by Lester Del Rey (Gutenberg text)
- Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016), by Chris Pak
- Engineering Research and Technology Development on the Space Station (1996), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Corona: America's First Satellite Program (1995), by United States Central Intelligence Agency, ed. by Kevin Conley Ruffner (PDF at fdlp.gov)
- Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- New Moons: Towing Asteroids into Earth Orbits for Exploration and Exploitation: Transcripts of the Presentations at the Special Session of the Eighth Lunar Science Conference, 16 March 1977, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1977), ed. by David R. Criswell (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)
- Remote Sensing and the Private Sector: Issues for Discussion (OTA-TM-ISC-20; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
- Launch Options for the Future: A Buyer's Guide (OTA-ISC-383; Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
- Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)
- NASA Contractor Report (partial serial archives)
- Space Handbook: Astronautics and Its Applications (c1959), by Robert W. Buchheim and Rand Corporation (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
- Space Technology (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1959), ed. by Howard S. Seifert (page images at HathiTrust)
- NASA Technical Note (partial serial archives)
- United States Space Science Program: Report to COSPAR, Sixth Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, June 1963 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1963), by National Research Council Space Science Board (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor, by Hermann Noordung (PDF at NASA)
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