Salyut 7 would continue to perform its duties until February 1991, with Mir (DOS-7, launched 1986) as the first modular space station taking over. The final DOS module (DOS-8) that directly traces ...

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 ...

On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. This space station was a modified version of the Soviet Union's Almaz space station, which was part of a ...

Consequently, the Soviets put a new suite of greenhouses on their next space station, Salyut 7, which launched in 1982. As flight engineer of the Salyut 7’s first crew, Valentin Lebedev was in ...

The Soviets’ first manned docking attempt failed, but the second, Soyuz 4 and 5, in January 1969, succeeded. Dockings with the Salyut space station followed, as did U.S. dockings with Skylab.

The movie screening was attended by astronaut Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos space agency CEO Igor Komarov, daughter of the world’s first man ... s flight to the Salyut-7 space station.