On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies ...

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 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 ...

Their initial offering is known as Haven. Haven is somewhat reminiscent of early Russian Salyut space stations in that the entire station is placed into low-Earth orbit by a single rocket ...

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 ...

These preliminary steps are much like Russia took with their Salyut space station program. Both Tiangong-1 and 2 are first generation space stations in that they are single pieces with only one ...

Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin in space, flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997, but tragically died in the 2003 Columbia disaster. Sunita Williams, an American astronaut of Indian ...

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 ...

This mission was the first long-duration stay aboard the Salyut 4 space station which had been sent into orbit unmanned in December 1974. The mission lasted 29 days and was the longest Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...