History Main / SpaceStation

* ''Videogame/HardspaceShipbreaker'' is set aboard Salvage Station ''Morrigan'', an enormous hexagonal ring in which you take vessels apart for salvage. It's by not means the only one, though; whichever way you look past the ''Morrigan'' you can see Earth's orbits are ''ridiculously'' crowded with space stations of all kinds and unknown purposes (aside from the Railgate behind the habitat).

* ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' features a station that serves as the villain's main lair. Incidentally, it was the last set built for the Bond films by Ken Adam, who was production designer for the Bond films until then.

->''"That's no moon. It's a space station!"''
-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars Episode IV: Film/ANewHope''

** The now non-canon comics also feature the Robotech Refinery Satellite ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a refinery for monopole ore orbiting the planet Fantoma]]) and Space Station V (an Invid base).

* Two types of stations can be built in ''VideoGame/HaegemoniaLegionsOfIron''. Both types can move prior to deploying, at which point they are unable to be "undeployed", although the ExpansionPack fixed that. Mining bases are unarmed and position themselves over resource-rich asteroids in order to process them. Military bases can be built of different types, depending on the type of weapons you want them to have (missile, proton, ion, quantum). They cannot use weapons when mobile. They also repair friendly ships in the vicinity. The campaign also has resort and hospital stations, as well as the Darzok HQ, which must be destroyed to win the game. You also find abandoned [[{{Precursor}} Solon]] stations with active defenses.

** The [[SpaceElves Lo'ona Aeo]] space has a number of heavily-armed space fortresses protecting their borders. Unfortunately, some of them have been somehow taken over by the [[TheReptilians Dromi]], who use them as staging areas for raids into Lo'ona Aeo space. They typically have a mushroom-like shape, with the "stalk" being centered around a massive acceleration shaft - the central component of every [[FasterThanLightTravel contour drive]]. The third ''Arivals'' novel involves the assault on one such fortress, dubbed the Rathole, by the human mercenaries employed by the Lo'ona Aeo ([[spoiler:they use the above-mentioned acceleration shaft to enter the station]]). There are also unarmed trading posts located in the border sectors, from where large trade ships depart to alien worlds.

* In ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'', Area 3 conatains a space colony of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus Stanford torus]] variety. It has a functioning city inside its ring.

* ''Conquest of Space'' (George Pal's 1955 sci-fi flop after his previous blockbusters ''Film/DestinationMoon'' and ''Film/WhenWorldsCollide'') has The Wheel, whose design was taken from the famous illustrated book of that name. It's the first thing seen in the movie.

* ''Mutiny in Outer Space'' (1965). The mutiny takes place on Space Station X-7 (a classic wheel design), which has become contaminated by an alien fungus.
* The 2014 comedy ''Space Station 76'' is a StepfordSuburbia InSpace. The station has a ''Series/Space1999'' {{Retraux}} look about it.

* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'' comics have Droid World, an enormous space station overseen by a cyborg named Kligson, which was home to countless droids who wanted nothing to do with the organic races of the galaxy.

* Skylab (1973–79): NASA's only self-launched and operated space station, operated from 1973-1974. During its launch one of its main solar wings and the main sunshade was torn off, and the second wing was jammed against the side of the hull by a metal strap, resulting in a loss of power and dangerously high internal temperatures. The first crew sent there was able to release the remaining wing and erect a sunshade that brought temperatures back to survivable levels. Plans were floated to bring Skylab back into functional status for several years, but NASA was ultimately convinced that the Shuttle would not be operational in time to return to Skylab before its orbit decayed too far to recover. De-orbited in 1979, it was replaced by the Spacelab attachment for the Shuttle Orbiter. Debris from the station landed in the Shire of Esperance, Australia, which responded by issuing a [[RefugeInAudacity $400 fine for littering]] to the US government.

* Prominently featured on ''Space Shuttle''s sequel, the aptly named ''Space Station''. It uses the ring model and slowly spins after certain triggers, but the poor build quality of the model compared to that of ''Space Shuttle'' makes it look more like a ring-shaped fluorescent light.

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' has the M-BUS, the headquarters for the Anti Zodiarts Union. It fires a beam of Cosmic Energy that enables [[SecondRider Kamen Rider Meteor]] to transform, and can double as a KillSat.

* ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'' and ''Trevelyan's Mission'':
** The [[SpaceElves Lo'ona Aeo]] space has a number of heavily-armed space fortresses protecting their borders. Unfortunately, some of them have been somehow taken over by the [[TheReptilians Dromi]], who use them as staging areas for raids into Lo'ona Aeo space. They typically have a mushroom-like shape, with the "stalk" being centered around a massive acceleration shaft - the central component of every [[FasterThanLightTravel contour drive]]. The third ''Arivals'' novel involves the assault on one such fortress, dubbed the Rathole, by the human mercenaries employed by the Lo'ona Aeo ([[spoiler:they use the above-mentioned acceleration shaft to enter the station]]). There are also unarmed trading posts located in the border sectors, from where large trade ships depart to alien worlds.
** In ''The Faraway Saikat'', the recently-built Saikat Research Station is a massive circle built by the [[HumanAliens Kni'lina]] for the joint human-Kni'lina research team, whose purpose is to study the primitive natives of Saikat. Given the Kni'lina cultural emphasis on personal space, the huge station has been designed for a relatively small research team (roughly two dozen Kni'lina). The station is separated into the human and Kni'lina halves of equal area, even though humans don't require nearly as much space. While the station is unarmed, it does feature a bio-emitter, which can be used to wipe out all life within a certain area on the planet below. The purpose is to decide which of the two hominid races on the planet to wipe out for the benefit of the other.