A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an
extended period of time, and is therefore a type of space habitat.It lacks major propulsion
or landing
systems.An orbital station or an orbital space station is an artificial satellite.
ABOUT
In the early 1980s, NASA planned to launch a modular space station called Freedom as a
counterpart to
the Soviet Salyut and Mir space stations. In 1984 the ESA was invited to participate
in Space Station Freedom,
and the ESA approved the Columbus laboratory by 1987.The Japanese
Experiment Module (JEM), or Kibō, was announced in 1985,
as part of the Freedom space station in
response to a NASA request in 1982.
