Sentence examples for station unoccupied from inspiring English sources

If the problem dragged on to the end of the year, the other three would also have to return to Earth, leaving the space station unoccupied.

Russia's aging Mir space station, unoccupied and starved for the money necessary to operate it, may be near the end of its 15-year life, experts said today.

The EO-1 crew spent their last 20 days on Mir conducting Earth observations before returning to Earth on 16 July 1986, leaving the new station unoccupied.

Still, in Sadr City, the Baghdad slum named after Mr. Sadr's father, gunmen shot at and then blew up a police station that was apparently unoccupied at the time.

Asof 2012, the station house was unoccupied.

Fearful of new violence, police units equipped with tear gas, truncheons and guns were stationed outside the unoccupied presidential palace and Congress building this morning.

The ESA's collaboration with China thus far include participating in the study of those returned samples, and potentially sending a European astronaut to the Chinese space station (which is currently unoccupied) at some future date.

Page 7 SOMALI INSURGENTS SEIZE POLICE STATIONS Three unoccupied police stations in Mogadishu were taken over by insurgents after Ethiopia began withdrawing its troops -- who had been bolstering the country for two years -- from the city.

Even if unoccupied, the space station can be operated by controllers on the ground indefinitely and would not be in immediate danger of falling out of orbit.

The unoccupied US space station Skylab fell to Earth in 1979 when its orbit deteriorated faster than anticipated, scattering debris over western Australia.

The four-car train overran the station platform and struck an unoccupied train that was awaiting assignment.