Space Station Freedom
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This article is about the American space station design from the 1980s. For the end result, see International Space Station.
"Space Station Alpha" redirects here. For the Bigelow Aerospace project, see Space Complex Alpha.
Space Station Freedom was a NASA project to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting space station in the 1980s. Although approved by then-president Ronald Reagan and announced in the 1984 State of the Union address, Freedom was never constructed or completed as originally designed, and after several cutbacks, the project evolved into the International Space Station program.
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Station statistics | |
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Crew | 4 |
Mission status | Project converted into International Space Station |
Pressurized volume | 878 m3 (31,000 cu ft) |
Periapsis altitude | 400 km (250 mi) |
Apoapsis altitude | 400 km (250 mi) |
Orbital inclination | 28.5 deg |
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Space Station Freedom was a multinational collaborative project involving four participating space agencies: NASA (United States), NASDA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).