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Space stations and orbiting platforms.

Created for discussion of crewed orbital stations, the group ran through the long design and political argument that produced the International Space Station, alongside the Mir years and the shuttle flights that serviced both.

sci.space.* was a branch where working engineers, academics and well-read enthusiasts argued in the same thread; this room took the hardware and programme end of that.

Reading sci.space.station today

  • Historical archive: Google Groups — sci.space.station (coverage varies by group and era).
  • Open in a newsreader: news:sci.space.station — the original site offered exactly this link, and it still works if your system has a newsreader registered for the news: scheme.
  • Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
  • The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.