On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. This space station was a modified version of the Soviet Union's Almaz space station, which was part of a ...

The first proper space station, Salyut 1, was constructed by the Soviet Union in 1971. Additional stations were launched during the rest of the Salyut program over the next 15 years. In 1986 ...

Work on the Transport Logistics Spacecraft was deferred, and the Soyuz spacecraft originally built for the Soviet manned Moon program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1 ...

In 1951, Wernher von Braun published his design for a wheeled space station. The first space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union April 19, 1971. Like all the early space stations, it ...

dock with a space station and descend, the first Salyut station (DOS-1, for Durable Orbital Station) made it abundantly clear just how brutal and unforgiving each part of this process can be.

ESA/NASA/Alexander Gerst The next several Soyuz missions consisted of docking maneuvers and crew transfers in preparation for working on humanity’s first space station, Salyut 1, which was ...

EACH EVENING, AFTER DOING HIS EXERCISES, Viktor Patsayev glided over to Oasis, a little square greenhouse attached to a wall of the Salyut 1 space station, to water the flax plants inside.

Three Russian cosmonauts were assigned to the Soyuz 11 mission that launched on June 6, 1971. They broke a record at the time for the longest space flight endurance. The mission ended tragically ...