So I launched the first part of my station into an orbit at about 120km around kerbin. Then I launched a ship to the mun. I noticed the station had no orbit in the tracking station. When I took control of the station piece again the fuel tanks were empty throttle was up and it was falling out of the sky. I was forced to recover it before it hit the ground. When I left it to orbit kerbin its fuel tanks were almost completely full and the throttle was off solar panels extended and bill in the pilots seat to keep an eye on things until the next piece was launched.