Questions tagged [space-station]
A large inhabited space craft used as a base, not for travel.
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Young Cylander stows away to visit Earth
This is a novella or novel I read in the 90s. The main character was a teen who had spent his life on a large orbital space station. The station was known as Cyland (not sure about the spelling) ...
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Space station commander previously a hostage in an embassy
My memory is playing tricks. I'm trying to remember a novel I read probably late 90s, early 2000s.
Set in roughly modern day. Space station orbiting Earth is a secondary objective in the plot because ...
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First story having both the bad guys and the good guys avoiding using weapons in a space craft or space station that would puncture hull?
It seems like this comes up a lot: despite the bad guys having murderous intent, there is at least a tacit agreement not to use projectile weapons or anything else that would make a hole in the ship's ...
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Why does the Chief Engineer of DS9 have an office on the promenade?
In the list of establishments on the Terrok DS9 promenade we find the "Chief Engineer's Office" at 01-409.
Why would the station's Chief Engineer have an office on the promenade? Does he ...
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Short story with a piano player on a space station who plays a bunch of old songs and, when asked why, claims he was "possessed by a ghost"
This one is a very sketchy memory because the main thrust of it was, I'm pretty sure, based on a misunderstanding. When I was a child, in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, I remember reading a short ...
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Does the Federation administer any non-Federation space stations other than Deep Space Nine?
One of the interesting plot points in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was that the titular space station was administered by the Federation but was otherwise not a Federation facility (built by the ...
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Many years ago, (45 years or more) I read a book about a tin can shaped space station
Novel years ago, tin can shaped space station, different levels were color coded to indicate the different "gravity" on that floor. They built the station by building a space wheel, then another, ...
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Movie about Chinese nuclear satellite threatening a US space station
This movie came out in the 80's or early 90's. A crew aboard a space station notice a satellite orbiting close to them and find out it's actually a Chinese orbiting nuclear weapon. They spacewalk and ...
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Sci Fi dystopia about a space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic earth
The station is beginning to run out of resources, and therefore sends a group of teenagers down as a vanguard to begin the process of recolonizing the Earth.
The teenagers sent are those that broke ...
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Where is this triangular-shaped space station from?
I came across this image on Facebook. It looks similar to Deep Space Nine. A reverse image search on Google revealed that the station is from an old Chinese television show. Now I am wondering does ...
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In the movie interstellar, how far was Cooper station from Saturn?
When Cooper was seen floating near Saturn he was well beyond the ring system. Is it explained anywhere how far the station was from Saturn?
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Why was 'Space Station V' in Low Earth Orbit?
Was it ever explained why Space Station V, used as a transfer point from Earth orbit to the moon and other planets, was in a low Earth orbit rather than a higher orbit, which would have been more ...
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Book or movie where sudden depressurization leads to "blood spatter" which turned out to be ketchup
I remember only one scene, which involved an unexpected sudden depressurization (maybe a blown airlock) in a space station. The main character rushed to an emergency air chamber and survived, barely. ...
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What happened to Zathras when Babylon-4 disappeared back in time?
This is similar to one of my other questions, but instead of asking about the station, I am asking about a character who was on the station.
When Babylon-4 was nearing the final stages of ...
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Novel with inexperienced soldiers in orbit
All I remember of it is a scene where experienced Earth soldiers in spacesuits who are, however, not experienced in space combat are trying to assault a rotating space station. They jump off from one ...
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