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

The Soviet Union told the rest of the world that Salyut 2 was a civilian space station built for scientific research, but it was secretly intended to be a crewed military reconnaissance station ...

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 ...

The Soviet-era Salyut and Mir stations had similar walls ... As blueprints were being drawn for the International Space Station, the Russian plan was to assemble several research labs to attach ...

In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station, code-named Almaz, which secretly carried a 23-mm Nudelmann aircraft cannon. According to Soviet cosmonauts, tests run on this very ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...