The first space station placed into orbit around the earth followed by a team sent from earth to link up with the station was developed by

Soviet Union is the country that placed the First space station into the orbit around the earth followed by a team sent from earth to link up with the station that was developed. It is still an important part of history as far as space travel for humans are concerned. A space station is actually a spacecraft that can support human survival for a long time and other spacecrafts can dock with it. It cannot travel to earth and back by itself, so it requires other spacecrafts to bring in supplies.