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 ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a cutting-edge, habitable satellite orbiting Earth, serving as a global research lab ...

Salyut 1. The world’s first space station, Salyut 1 was launched on 19 April 1971. It spent only 175 days in orbit before it burned up in the atmosphere.

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 ...

Salyut 4 was a small space station about the size of a school bus. It was almost identical to its sibling space station DOS 3, which failed to make it to orbit.

Immediately, the power consumption onboard the Salyut went down. The station still couldn’t maneuver on its own, but a large space tug named Kosmos-1886, which had been docked there since ...

He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved.