Soviet engineers began work on large rockets ... the Soviet manned Moon program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned ...

Although the N-1 failed to launch, the rocket engineer who led the ... from cannons to laser guns into space. In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station, code-named Almaz ...

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 ...

US astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch answer questions about their all-female space walk Ms Koch, an electrical engineer ... who went outside the USSR's Salyut 7 space station for three ...