The legacy of Salyut 7. With the station back up and running, the crew of Soyuz T-13 was no longer on a rescue mission. It was time for them to settle in. Dzhanibekov remained in orbit for 110 ...

Russia’s Salyut 1 was humankind’s first space station. The ensuing Salyut program lasted fifteen years, from 1971 to 1986, and the lessons learned from this remarkable series of experiments ...

Salyut 1 launched unmanned from the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. Two days later, Soyuz 10 lifted off, carrying a crew of three toward the space station with the intention of remaining in space ...

Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971. The early first-generation stations were plagued by failures.

It was the first in a line of seven other Salyut stations. The final module of the program, called Zvezda, launched in 2000 and is still orbiting Earth as part of the International Space Station.

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Salyut 5 was a Soviet space station and part of the highly-secretive Almaz military space station ...

The Salyut 7 measured 52 feet long by 13 feet wide with 295 cubic feet of pressurized interior space when fully assembled. Per NASA:. It had two docking ports, one on either end of the station, to ...

“Now humans have a home in space.” Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union put into orbit the first space station in history for long-term human habitation - the ‘Salyut-1’. 1. It was developed ...

Intended as the transition test bed from the existing monolithic space stations, Salyut 7 pioneered modular station concepts that would be used in its successor, DOS-7, as well as adding a focus ...

Grechko's second flight, aboard Soyuz 26 to the Salyut 6 station, included his first and only extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, on Dec. 20, 1977, just 10 days after his launch with Yuri ...