Space Station Freedom
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Space Station Freedom was a NASA-led multi-national project proposed in the 1980s to construct a permanently crewed space station in low Earth orbit. Despite initial approval by President Ronald Reaga
Artist's rendition by Tom Buzbee of the proposed Space Station Freedom design as of early 1991. An annotated version of this image is also available.
Artistic rendering of "Power Tower" space station concept (1984)
Artistic rendering of Revised Baseline Configuration (1987)
Artist's conception of the completed Space Station Freedom in orbit (1991)
International Space Station
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The International Space Station is a space station in low Earth orbit. It is the product of the International Space Station program and is operated by five partner space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, ESA
Space Station Freedom
…ambitious project faced significant budget cuts and delays. Ultimately, a scaled-down version of Freedom evolved into the US Orbital Segment (USOS) of the International Space Station (ISS). By the time the project was canceled, NASA had already invested approximately $11 billion into Space Station Freedom, however some of that work…
Obverse view in October 2018
A painting of Apollo–Soyuz, a first milestone in international spaceflight
Comet Lovejoy photographed during Expedition 30
Michael Foale conducts an inspection of the Microgravity Science Glovebox during Expedition 8.