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OCR: WHAT IS A SPACE STATION? SPACE STATIONS ORBIT the Earth, Huge solar panels generate electricity, providing a place for crews to live and special walls and shields keep the and work in for weeks or months at a temperature comfortable and protect the time. The station offers everything the crew from radiation and space debris. crew needs to keep alive and well while Docking ports allow supply craft to be they conduct scientific investigations. sent up from the Earth to deliver cargo. Experiments HOTEL IN SPACE module In the future, space stations may be used as convenient rest stops on the space highway. Main lattice Solar panel structure for energy Living module Docking port SEE NEXT ALSO