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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indian Air Force (IAF) group captain Shubhanshu Shukla has been selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), NASA ...

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.

Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin in space, flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997, but tragically died in the 2003 Columbia disaster. Sunita Williams, an American astronaut of Indian ...

The TKS flew four times and docked to Salyut stations three times ... Zarya was the first module of the International Space Station, and provided power, control, and propulsion for the early ...