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. The crew of Soyuz 10 ...

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.

Dockings with the Salyut space station followed, as did U.S. dockings with Skylab. In 1975, Americans and Soviets linked up in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, and in the late 1990s with space ...

The launch of Skylab came two years after the Soviet Union had deployed the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. This station only hosted a single crew, which arrived aboard the ill-fated ...

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 ...

The newest habitable module for the International Space Station (ISS), Nauka ... and cargo resupply vehicle for the Soviet Union’s Salyut space stations. It was comprised of two parts ...

During the Soyuz 11 mission in 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts visited the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. But during ...

In practice, every space station since the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 in 1971 has featured some way for its occupants to workout while in orbit. It’s no replacement for being on Earth ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Salyut π Salyut π is a first person shooter, with a great atmosphere. This game this game is set in a futuristic base, all this with great graphics.