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Bracewell probe

An alien probe contacts the space station Babylon 5 in the season 3 episode "A Day in the Strife." The probe is a Bracewell probe, asking a series of questions and offering new technologies, medicine and science in return for answers to said questions.

By Inferno's Light

Having just come through the wormhole in the closing moments of the previous episode, the Dominion fleet momentarily pauses and faces off with DS9, USS Defiant, several runabouts, and Gul Dukat aboard a Bird of Prey.

Meanwhile, the station crew are awaiting reinforcements and trying to locate the Changeling in their midst.

Esperance, Western Australia

In 1979, pieces of the space station Skylab crashed onto Esperance after the craft broke up over the Indian Ocean.

Franz Viehböck

At the Mir space station he conducted 15 experiments in the fields of space medicine, physics and space technology, together with the cosmonauts Anatoly Artsebarsky and Sergey Krikalev.

Inflatable space habitat

The first serious design and manufacture of an inflatable space habitat was in 1961 with a space station design produced by Goodyear (although this design was never flown).

Noel's Saturday Roadshow

These 'locations' were in fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble each week's location, such as the North Pole, a space station, Hollywood, or Niagara Falls.

Starbase

The most prominent example of a starbase in Babylon 5 is the Babylon 5 station itself, as well as its four sister stations of the O'Neill cylinder configuration.

Thomas Akers

shuttle flight to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir and the first to exchange U.S. astronauts with Mir, returning Shannon Lucid to earth and leaving John Blaha.


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Alan G. Poindexter

In July 2006, Poindexter was assigned as Pilot on the STS-122 mission that delivered the European Space Agency's Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station in February 2008.

Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov

Upon arriving at Mir, Aleksandrov became the first Bulgarian to reach a Soviet space station, as the Soyuz 33 mission carrying Georgi Ivanov failed to reach the Salyut 6 space station.

Subsequently, Aleksandrov was assigned to the prime crew of the Soyuz TM-5 mission to the Mir space station.

Aluminum Model Toys

By the mid-1970s, the Enterprise kit had been joined by a 1/12 scale figure of Spock, defending himself against a 3-headed reptile on an alien landscape, as well as models of a Romulan ship, a Starfleet Shuttlecraft, a model of the Enterprise Bridge, the Space Station K-7 (from the episode The Trouble With Tribbles), and a 3-piece "exploration set" (consisting of toylike, approximately 3/4 scale models of a phaser, a communicator, and a tricorder).

Bagna càuda

The US television series Babylon 5 episode "A Distant Star" featured Michael Garibaldi's effort to smuggle the ingredients for the dish onto the space station in defiance of doctor's orders.

Balladonia, Western Australia

In July 1979, the area gained worldwide attention when the re-entry of the Skylab space station left a trail of debris across the countryside.

Canadian Astronaut Corps

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield achieved worldwide fame in 2013 for releasing a music video he recorded on the International Space Station of his version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" song.

CONNECT

Communications, Navigation, and Networking reConfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT), a testbed for the Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN) program on the International Space Station

COTS

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, a NASA program for delivery to the International Space Station by private companies

Dana Sterling

Some clarification on this issue was given in an interview with Carl Macek by Chris Meadows on the Space Station Liberty program on 4/14/07.

Heinz Wolff

Wolff was the scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mir space station.

History of Vietnam since 1945

In 1980, cosmonaut Phạm Tuân became the first Vietnamese and the first Asian to go into space, traveling on the Soviet Soyuz 37 to service the Salyut 6 space station.

Inflatable space habitat

Bigelow recently announced that it has agreements with six sovereign states to utilize on-orbit facilities of the commercial space station: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Sweden.

Lee Archambault

The mission delivered the final set of solar arrays to the space station, as well as long duration crew member Koichi Wakata.

Lituanica SAT-1

Satellite launch from the International Space Station to space is planned from February 25 to February 28, 2014 by JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata

Mir EP-3

The first was launched and landed with the spacecraft Soyuz 32, and lasted for 175 days; it was the third long-duration expedition on the space station Salyut 6, called Salyut 6 EO-3.

Molly Millions

She is referred to as a "razor girl" throughout his stories and also as "Steppin' Razor" by the residents of Zion, a Rastafarian enclave aboard a space station.

Nana Visitor

From 1993–1999, Visitor appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Major (later Colonel, and eventually, Commander) Kira Nerys, a former freedom fighter/terrorist for the planet Bajor, who worked to drive off the alien occupiers, the Cardassians, from her homeworld, now forced to work with the Starfleet contingent brought in by her government to administer the titular space station built in orbit around her planet during the occupation.

North American DC-3

By about 1970 these had settled on the near-term launching of a 12-man space station in 1975, expanding this to a 50-man "space base" by 1980, a smaller lunar-orbiting station, and then eventually a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s.

Oleg Kononenko

On December 21, 2011, Kononenko, along with André Kuipers and Donald Pettit, launched to the International Space Station to join the crew of Expedition 30.

Oleg Skripochka

They deployed the antenna for the Radio Technical System for Information Transfer, an experimental system designed to enable large data files to be downlinked using radio technology at a speed of about 100 MB/s from space station's Russian segment.

Origins of the International Space Station

In September 1993, American Vice-President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin announced plans for a new space station, which eventually became the International Space Station.

The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS or RS) is the eleventh Soviet-Russian space station.

Payload Operations and Integration Center

The Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the headquarters for International Space Station science operations.

Project 921-3

This broad project was divided into three phases: 921/1 to launch a manned mission by 2002 in a craft that became the Shenzhou, the Project 921/2 temporary space station by 2010, and the 921/3 permanent space station by 2020.

Pyotr Kolodin

He trained as test engineer to fly on Soyuz 11 to visit the Salyut 1 space station, but the entire crew was bumped when it was suspected that flight engineer Valeri Kubasov had contracted tuberculosis.

Raduga

VBK-Raduga, an unmanned reentry capsule used to return material from the Russian Mir space station

RKK

S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, also known as RKK Energiya, a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components

Robert A. Parker

From March 1988 to March 1989, Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he served as director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office.

Rotating wheel space station

In the Zenon trilogy (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Zenon: The Zequel and Zenon: Z3), 13 year old Zenon lives on a rotating space station owned by the fictional WyndComm from 2049 though 2054 that is similar in appearance to Space Station V, but it is not designed in a way that would allow for artificial gravity through centripetal force like Space Station V of Space Odyssey 2001.

Salyut 7

All Soviet and Russian space stations were equipped with automatic rendezvous and docking systems, from the first space station Salyut 1 using the IGLA system, to the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station using the Kurs system.

Sherwood C. Spring

His technical assignments have included software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and Flight Simulation Laboratory; vehicle and satellite integration at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for STS-5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; Astronaut Office EVA (Extra-vehicular activity) expert; and Space Station construction, EVA maintenance, and design.

Skylab Two

Skylab 3 (SLM-2), the second manned mission to the Skylab space station

Skylab 2 (SL-2), second mission in the Skylab space station program

Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999

The Moon's shadow was also observed from the Russian Mir space station; during the eclipse, video from Mir was broadcast live on television.

Soyuz-1

Soyuz TM-31, the first Soyuz mission to the International Space Station

Soyuz-2

Soyuz TM-32, the second Soyuz mission to the International Space Station

Space city

Space habitat, a space station intended to provide a permanent home for a large population

Space Industries Incorporated

In 1988, the Reagan Administration requested $700 million from the annual budget in order to participate in the project, but the request was not approved by Congress, and the space station was never built.

Sukhoi Su-30MKM

Under this agreement the Russian Federation bore the cost of training two Malaysians for space travel and for sending one to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2007 under the Angkasawan program.

Sunil Hirani

After graduation from Washington University (St. Louis), Hirani worked at SAIC and Lockheed on the Space Station program.

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

There were already two cosmonauts on board the Parity space station before the launch; however, they had mysteriously curtailed all contact with the aircraft carrier Convention, afloat between San Francisco and Vladivostok, which serves as a base of operations for the Soviets and Americans.

Thomas Marshburn

Marshburn served as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 34/35 to the International Space Station, launching aboard Soyuz TMA-07M on December 19, 2012, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with crew members Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.

Tiangong-3

A manned Shenzhou spacecraft will be used to transport crewmembers to and from the space station.

VBK

VBK-Raduga, a reentry capsule that was used for returning materials from the Mir space station

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov

In 1999 he underwent basic cosmonaut training in preparation for visiting the MIR space station as a commercial guest to work on a film, but his trip was canceled.