The last of these, Salyut 7, famously “died” in 1985, when a loss of power shut down all of its systems. But later that year, two cosmonauts risked their lives to revive the radio silent space ...

Salyut 7 marked a significant departure from this method, though, by being the first Soviet station to employ a modular design. And that wasn’t the only improvement.

In its opening moments, the Russian space thriller Salyut-7 feels like an alternate-universe version of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity.Two cosmonauts on a spacewalk in 1983 joke with a compatriot ...

This Saturday is a special day in the history of Russian cosmonautics. On February 11, 1985, there was a classified state of emergency at the "Salyut-7" station. Cosmonauts Janibekov and Savinykh ...

Indie Sales has acquired international sales rights to Klim Shipenko’s “Salyut 7,” a $15 million Cold War-set 3D space adventure based on the true story of a doomed Russian rescue mission of ...

MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the creators of the Salyut-7 movie and with astronauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh late Tuesday evening, who flew ...

Salyut 7 would continue to perform its duties until February 1991, with Mir (DOS-7, launched 1986) as the first modular space station taking over. The final DOS module (DOS-8) ...

Indie Sales has acquired international sales rights to Klim Shipenko’s “Salyut 7,” a $15 million Cold War-set 3D space adventure based on the true story of a doomed Russian rescue mission of ...

Indie Sales has acquired international sales rights to Klim Shipenko’s “Salyut 7,” a $15 million Cold War-set 3D space adventure based on the true story of a doomed Russian rescue mission of ...