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When you are building a space station, you need a rocket, and several different space station modules. I like using the same rocket for all my modules, or you can build individual ones; if you build a very good rocket and save it as a sub-assembly, it will probably work for all the parts.

Next you have to design the bits of the space station. Here's one I made earlier:

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It's not all stock; you can see the greenhouses and recyclers, plus it was early career so I used a lot of the small solar panels, which I replaced when I updated the station with larger fuel tanks. You don't need that many solar panels, unless you're planning on running an ISRU operation (extracting fuel from ore, either mined from a nearby planet/moon or an asteroid).

Most space stations are made of few modules, because it's easier. If you are in sandbox or late career, you can have just three or four massive modules with all the fuel you could possibly need. It's quite easy to fly a rocket to orbit, a skill I assume you have mastered, but the difficult and time-consuming bit is rendezvous and docking. There are many tutorials, and I recommend getting an alignment indicator mod, to show when you are pointing in the right direction. Basically, you need to be pointing along the axis of the port, so that if you were in front of it, you would be pointing towards it. Then use RCS to move in front of it, so you are pointing directly at it, and slowly move into dock, slowing down about 10m away to about 0.2m/s.

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