In the 1970s, the USSR quietly armed a covert military space station under the Salyut program, then carried out a real cannon ...

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.

On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way. Salyut 6 was the eighth space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut ...

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 ...

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, ...

Back when the space race was at its peak, Russia was kicking some serious American butt. Even if, in the end, the U.S. managed to get ahead by putting humans on the Moon, it was the Russians who first ...

While most Western space enthusiasts remember the American Skylab space station, only some recall the long series of Soviet orbiting labs called the Salyut space stations. The last of these, Salyut 7, ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...

On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union launched under its Salyut program and the first second-generation Salyut space ...