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Follow space stations from Skylab’s sunshade to the solar wings of Mir, the International Space Station, and Tiangong. Exterior photographs show how the stations took shape, and views inside show where crews worked, looked out at Earth, and made room for everyday life in orbit.

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Skylab’s Emergency Sunshade
Skylab’s Emergency Sunshade: A pale parasol covers part of Skylab’s workshop in this photograph taken as the Skylab 2 crew…
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International Space Station From Crew Dragon
International Space Station From Crew Dragon: The station’s solar wings frame its central truss in this mosaic from Crew…
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Mir With Space Shuttle Atlantis
Mir With Space Shuttle Atlantis: Atlantis is still attached to Mir in this photograph from July 4, 1995. The Mir 19 crew…
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Inside the ISS Cupola
Inside the ISS Cupola: The windows of the Cupola frame blue water and clouds above Polynesia. A Soyuz and a Progress are…
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Tiangong From Shenzhou 16
Tiangong From Shenzhou 16: The solar arrays of China’s Tiangong station stand out against a blanket of cloud. The Shenzhou…
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Two Crews Inside Tiangong’s Tianhe Module
Two Crews Inside Tiangong’s Tianhe Module: The Shenzhou 15 and Shenzhou 16 crews pose together inside Tianhe, the core…
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Salyut 1 Seen From Soyuz 10
Salyut 1 Seen From Soyuz 10: The world’s first space station recedes in a view from the departing Soyuz 10 crew in 1971…
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Inside the First Space Station
Inside the First Space Station: Vladislav Volkov takes a blood sample from Georgi Dobrovolski aboard Salyut in 1971. The…
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Weightlessness in Skylab’s Workshop
Weightlessness in Skylab’s Workshop: Gerald Carr holds a finger beneath William Pogue as his crewmate floats upside down…
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Salyut 7 in Orbit
Salyut 7 in Orbit: Solar panels spread from the body of the Soviet Salyut 7 station. The station had two docking ports, so…
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Destiny Laboratory Just After Opening
Destiny Laboratory Just After Opening: A view through the hatch shows the inside of the newly installed Destiny laboratory…
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Dinner in Mir’s Core Module
Dinner in Mir’s Core Module: Yuri Onufriyenko, Yuri Usachev, and Shannon Lucid gather at mealtime on Mir. The core module’s…
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Zarya and Unity Begin the ISS
Zarya and Unity Begin the ISS: The Russian-built Zarya module and the American-built Unity module meet at the start of the…
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The ISS After Destiny’s Arrival
The ISS After Destiny’s Arrival: The young International Space Station as Atlantis pulled away in February 2001. The newly…
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Inside Japan’s Kibo Laboratory
Inside Japan’s Kibo Laboratory: Equipment racks line the walls of Kibo’s pressurized module. The Japanese laboratory gives…
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Mir’s Original Core Module
Mir’s Original Core Module: The cylindrical core of Mir appears here before the station grew into its familiar cluster of…
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A Sleeping Bag on the ISS
A Sleeping Bag on the ISS: NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren poses in a sleeping bag aboard the International Space Station in…
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Inside Tiangong’s Tianhe Core Module
Inside Tiangong’s Tianhe Core Module: The crew works among equipment racks inside Tianhe, the first part of China’s…

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