The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a 1960s Air Force program with the ostensible mission to place military personnel in orbit to conduct scientific experiments to determine the “military usefulness” of placing man into space and the techniques and procedures for doing so if the need ever arose. The actual, classified, mission of the MOL program was to place a manned surveillance satellite into orbit.
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Babylon 5, from, well, Babylon 5.
Deep Space Station K-7, from “The Trouble with Tribbles”, Star Trek.
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren corrals the supply of fresh fruit that arrived August 25, 2015 on the Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5.)
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Astronaut Liu Yang’s first night shift in China’s space station Tiangong 1, June 2012.
Above: Illustration of the rendezvous and docking procedure employed for Soyuz T-13 mission to rescue dead space station Salyut 7.
Below: Cosmonaut Dzhanibekov working to repair space station Salyut 7 in 1985.
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Salyut 7, following the undocking of the Soyuz T-13 mission to the space station - September 1985. (source)
Above: Salyut 1, the first space station, and the docked Soyuz 11 spacecraft, June 1971.
Below: Memorial stamp for the crew of Soyuz 11, the only humans to have died in space: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev.
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life magazine, july 23, 1945 , on the nazi space station superweapon sometimes called the “sun gun” - (source)
“The Brick Moon” is a short story by Edward Everett Hale, published serially in The Atlantic Monthly starting in 1869.It is a work of speculative fiction containing the first known depiction of an artificial satellite.
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