On April 3, 1973, the Soviet Union launched a small space station called Salyut 2. This was the second space station ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...