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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies to the Salyut 6 space station. Since then, more than 150 Progress ...

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 ...

The Axiom-4 crew includes members from India, Poland, and Hungary, marking each nation's 1st mission to the space station and ...

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 ...

Indian Air Force (IAF) group captain Shubhanshu Shukla has been selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), NASA announced on Thursday. He will become the first Indian astronaut to travel to the ...