When the Space Race kicked off in earnest in the 1950s, in some ways it was hard to pin down where sci-fi began and reality ended. As the first artificial satellites began zipping around the Earth, ...

When you think about space stations, which ones come to mind first? You might think Skylab, the International Space Station (ISS), or maybe Russia’s Mir. But before any of those took to the heavens, ...

The Salyut program was the first space station program undertaken by the Soviet Union, which consisted of a series of nine space stations launched over a period of eleven years from 1971 to 1982.

The Salyut program was the Soviet Union’s seven answers to Skylab. The first Salyut launched in 1971, the last in 1982. The early models were all monolithically constructed and launched in a single ...

Salyut 7 is the eighth aircraft of the Soviet Union's space station development project 'Salyut Project'. After Salyut 6 was launched in September 1977, the development plan for the next space station ...

In the Eighties Hungary was truly excited about its first cosmonaut going to space. Bertalan Farkas along with Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, was launched into space on Soyuz 36 from Baikonur ...

En juin 1985, la station Salyut 7, inoccupée depuis plusieurs mois, disparaît des radars des autorités spatiales soviétiques. Deux cosmonautes, Vladimir Fedorov et Viktor Alekhine, partent rejoindre ...