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Space Station Freedom was a proposed NASA project to construct a permanently crewed Low Earth orbit space station in the 1980s.  Ronald Reagan and announced in the 1984 State of the Union address, Space Station Freedom was never constructed or completed. After several cutbacks, the project evolved into the International Space Station program.

Boeing image from 1988 showing cutaways of the habitable modules they were to build for Space Station Freedom. Hab on top, lab below, logistics protruding to left. Connecting nodes let you move between them; on the right, they have a port for the Shuttle each, and one has a cupola.

Concept design for Space Station Freedom done by Boeing in 1998

 

The project was never completed.

 

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