ocr: Arts & Letters SpaceAGE * = - - An Historical Salyut Mir-1 Skylab Perspective of the Space Station Alpha Others History of... The concept of the space station goes back at least to t Intro 1869, when Edward Everett Hale mentioned in the Gallery Atlantic Monthly the Brick Moon, a space station, 197 feet (60 m) in diameter with a crew of37, placed in orbit to help ships navigate at sea. Novelists Jules Verne and H.G. Wells popularized the idea of space travel. By the turn ofthe century, scholars such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky were laying the toundations of space travel to orbiting space stations ...