It seems like everybody's got a story to tell. So I'll tell mine. Back in '89, the government finally began funding the space stations. They called it 'Project Station', and that lasted for a while.
People pick up on the slang quickly, and they became known as orbitors.
Just simply that. Way, way back before I was born, they had this film called '2001', with all life being on these orbitors. That's not really that true, mostly we're still experimenting with them. Every little development would be exploited in the news, just like it was with the pathetic little shuttle experiments. I guess they wasted all that money to see if they could do it.