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SPACE STATIONS & ANDROMEDA:
A space station, also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station, is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time. Stations devise docking ports to permit other spacecraft to dock to transfer crew and supplies—and in this case, NASA to ANDROMEDA, a branching spacecraft with its own team and separate project. A supplementary lineup.
Russia (then known as the Soviet Union) was the first to place a space station. The Salyut 1 station, which went into orbit in 1971, was actually an aggregate of the Almaz and Soyuz spacecraft systems. The Almaz system was incipiently devised for space military objectives, but repurposed for the civilian Salyut space station. The Soyuz spacecraft ferried cosmonauts from Earth to the space station and back.
