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 (DOS-1): Firsts And Tragedy Salyut 1 and Soyuz spacecraft. In contrast to today’s space stations made up of multiple modules, the first Salyuts were monolithic.

Salyut, variously translated as “salute” or “firework,” was a Soviet program that ran from 1971 to 1986 and included the world’s first space station, Salyut 1.

Salyut 1 marked the first time the docking and internal transfer system on a space station were used. The first humans to board it were Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, ...

Salyut-1’s crew also studied Earth’s geology and weather from above and studied the electromagnetic environment in space. Cosmonaut Viktor Patsayev became the first person to use a telescope ...

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.

The interior of Salyut 1 space station with the hatchway leading to the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Soyuz 11 launched on June 6, 1971.

The commander of the demining unit of the 93rd Brigade Kholodnyi Yar, 25-year-old "Salyut" ("Salute"), has gone through Bakhmut, Okhtyrka, Balakliia, Soledar, Lyman, Izium, and many other hot ...

The year is 1985. The unmanned Soviet space station Salyut 7, which is in low Earth orbit, suddenly stops responding to commands from the Control Center. If the space station - the pride of Soviet ...

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 ...

A Kalanchoe species was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space station in 1979. The Kalanchoe is the latest addition to Lidl's expansive ...