- 50 years ago was launched the first space station Salyut 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/salyut_1 3 comments space
- 48 years ago today Salyut 1 launched becoming the First Space Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-g0TAIFxFg 8 comments space
- Salyut 1 was the first space station launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program followed this with five more successful launches of seven more stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/salyut_1 3 comments europe
- On this day in 1971 the first space station - Salyut 1 - was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR, USSR. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/mtvsd3 3 comments europe
- 6 June 1971: the USSR launched the world's first space station. Soyuz 11 transported cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Vokov, and Viktor Patsayev to Salyut 1, where they successfully docked with the station and set a new space endurance record https://www.space.com/16773-first-space-station-salyut-1.html 4 comments space
- 50 years ago, on June 29, 1971, cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev died in space, the first humans to do so, as the Soyuz 11 crew capsule depressurized. They had been the first crew to board Salyut 1, the first space station, spending 23 days conducting experiments. https://www.americaspace.com/2013/04/28/the-crew-that-never-came-home-the-misfortunes-of-soyuz-11-part-2/ 613 comments space