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  Space Today Online -- Man In Space Firsts -- table of contents
Sigmund Jahn flew to Salyut 6 in 1978.
Bertalan Farkas flew to Salyut 6 in 1980.
Miroslaw Hermaszewski of Poland flew to Salyut 6 in 1978.
www.spacetoday.org /History/ManInSpaceFirsts/ManyPeoples.html   (934 words)

  
 Salyut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salyut 6 was launched on September 29, 1977.
From 1977 until 1982 Salyut 6 was visited by five long-duration crews and 11 short-term crews, including cosmonauts from Warsaw Pact countries.
After Salyut 6 manned operations were discontinued in 1981, a heavy unmanned spacecraft called TKS and developed using hardware left from the canceled Almaz program was docked to the station as a hardware test.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salyut   (917 words)

  
 Salyut 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although it resembled the previous Salyut space station s in overall design, it featured several revolutionary advances including a second docking port where a unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft could dock and refuel the station.
Diary of the Salyut 6 Mission Description of the Salyut 6 space station, its onboard equipment and its mission, together with a detailed diary of onboard events.
The Salyut 4 Space Station NASA guide to the scientific equipment and research aboard the space station which was in orbit December 1974 to February 1977.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Salyut_6.html   (710 words)

  
 Salyut
Salyut 1 was abandoned on Oct. 11, 1971, but several successor stations over the next 15 years helped pave the way for Mir.
The second Almaz, under the cover name “Salyut 3,” was successfully launched on Jun. 26, 1974, and its inaugural crew, Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, docked with the station on Jul. 3 for a stay lasting a couple of weeks.
The successful Salyut 4 was deorbited on Feb. 3, 1977, bringing the highest civilian honor, “Hero of the Socialist Labor”, to the chief designer of the spacecraft, Yuri Semenov, and one of the assembly technicians, V. Morozov (despite official objections that Morozov was not a member of the Communist Party)
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Salyut.html   (1776 words)

  
 Salyut 7 Space Station
Salyut 7 was the last of the Salyut space stations and the precursor to the Mir modular space station.
The 18,900-kilogram Salyut 7 station had three solar panels mounted to the outside, but unlike Salyut 6, there was now the ability to mount secondary panels on their sides.
During Savitskaya's second Salyut 7 visit in 1984, she participated in one of at least five spacewalks necessary to fix a rocket motor system leak, making her the first woman to perform an extravehicular activity.
www.aerospaceguide.net /spacestation/salyut7.html   (586 words)

  
 Salyut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Salyut (Russian: Салют, Salute or Firework) program was a series of space station s launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
Since the spacecraft was already in orbit and had been registered by Western radar, the Soviets disguised the launch as " Cosmos 557 " and quietly allowed it to reenter Earth's atmosphere and burn up a week later.
Diary of the Salyut 7 Mission Diary of events surrounding Salyut 7 space station starting from its launch to orbit in 1982 until 1986.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Salyut.html   (1024 words)

  
 Planetarium.Net Human Spaceflight Timeline
Salyut 1 was placed into orbit in 1971 and was occupied from June 6 to June 29.
Salyut 6 and 7 were the longest of the Salyut flights.
Salyut 6 was occupied from December 10, 1977 to May 22, 1981.
www.planetarium.net /edcenter/human/salyut.htm   (343 words)

  
 Chronology of Manned Space Missions
Soyuz 6, 7, and 8 were launched within a day of each other, putting a total of seven cosmonauts in space at the same time for a joint mission.
The new guidance system failed on approach to Salyut 6, but the astronauts were able to dock at Salyut 6 and spend three days with their fellow comrades.
Salyut 6 had well exceeded its design lifetime, but the cosmonauts spent 74 days there performing experiments and having guests (fellow cosmonauts, of course).
www.windows.ucar.edu /cgi-bin/tour_def/space_missions/manned_table.html   (3072 words)

  
 Salyut
Salyut 4, Salyut 6, and Salyut 7 were all successful, each space station being an evolutionary improvement over the previous model.
Planned mission to Salyut 6 that would make first docking with rear docking port and be the first crew to swap spacecraft and return in the spacecraft that ferried the Soyuz 25 crew.
Salyut 6 Cutaway - The Salyut 6 space station was the the first evolved design with two docking ports.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/project/salyut.htm   (5288 words)

  
 Salyut 6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Salyut 6 was a Soviet space station launched on September 29, 1977.
Although it resembled the previous Salyut space stations in overall design, it featured several revolutionary advances including a second docking port where an unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft could dock and refuel the station.
Vladimír Remek of Czechoslovakia, the first space traveler not from the US or USSR, visited Salyut 6 in 1978.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/salyut_6   (788 words)

  
 Salyut 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although it resembled the previous Salyut space stations in overall design, it featured several revolutionary advancesincluding a second docking port where a unmanned Progress cargospacecraft could dock and refuel the station.
AfterSalyut 6 manned operations were discontinued in 1981, a heavy unmanned spacecraft called TKS and developed using hardware leftfrom the canceled Almaz program was docked to the station as a hardware test.
An experimental transport logistics spacecraft called Cosmos 1267 docked with Salyut 6 in 1982.The transport logistics spacecraft was originally designed for the Almaz program.
www.therfcc.org /salyut-6-195342.html   (502 words)

  
 Space Station | The Station | Russian Space History
Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971.
The crew of Soyuz 10, the first spacecraft sent to Salyut 1, was unable to enter the station because of a docking mechanism problem.
The Soyuz 11 crew lived aboard Salyut I for three weeks, but died during return to the Earth because the air escaped from their Soyuz spacecraft.
www.pbs.org /spacestation/station/russian.htm   (656 words)

  
 Russia's early space stations (1969-1985)
Docked to Salyut-6 from Oct. 6 to Oct. 24.
After the loss of the first crew of the Salyut space station during landing, the pressure suits (right) were introduced for launch, landing and docking operations.
A 3rd generation Salyut space station, differs from its predecessors by a second docking port and a capability to be refueled in orbit from the Progress cargo ships.
www.russianspaceweb.com /spacecraft_manned_salyut.html   (1215 words)

  
 Occupation1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The launch of Soyuz 25 within a couple of weeks of Salyut 6 going into space was probably intended to be an occupation of the station lasting about two months.
By having the Soyuz 27 crew return to Earth in Soyuz 26 (which had been docked at Salyut’s aft port because of the Soyuz 25 failure), Salyut 6 was finally configured as required for the first visit by a Progress spacecraft.
Business then took off in earnest and Salyut 6 was ready to receive a steady stream of visitors over the next few years.
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Salyut6/Occupation1.htm   (709 words)

  
 Salyut
However from day 6 to 24 of the flight retrofire would be on the night side, and could only be accomplished using the technique of Soyuz 10 - aligning the spacecraft on the day side, spinning up the gyro platform, and using the gyros for night-side orientation during retrofire.
The Salyut station is much more comfortable than the Soyuz, but the mission has revealed it needs many improvements, including: a unit for ejecting liquids from the station; solar panels, and scientific instruments, that can be automatically pointed at the sun or their target and stabilised; an improved control section; better crew rest provisions.
Salyut 1 was kept aloft to study how the systems behaved over an extended period, in order to identify fixes to improve their reliability on later flights.
www.astronautix.com /project/salyut.htm   (12343 words)

  
 Space Stations - Salyut
Salyut development began in the 1960s and it became clear to western observers as the program developed that there were distinct civil and military interests.
From Salyut 6 a major redesign of the original engine system replaced the single nozzle with twin nozzles on each side of the second docking port added at the rear.
On Salyut 6 it was widened to the same 4.15 m diameter as the working compartment to take a second docking port.
www.braeunig.us /space/specs/salyut.htm   (827 words)

  
 Salyut 6 Flights
Note: + Soyuz 25 and Soyuz 33 failed to dock with Salyut 6.
** Soyuz 34 was launched unmanned on June 6, 1979 to provide a new return vehicle for the crew of Soyuz 32 and to test fixes to the propulsion system following the docking failure of Soyuz 33 during April 1979.
Salyut 6 was launched on September 29, 1977, and deorbited on July 29, 1982.
pages.prodigy.net /pxkb94ars/Astro_Salyut_6.htm   (76 words)

  
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During the lifetime of Salyut 6, 12 Progress flights carrying a total of 20 tons to space were neeed.
Salyut 6 was ordered to reenter the atmosphere in July of 1982.
A problem with the thrusters of Salyut 6 had developed, and the Soviet controllers thought they might not be able to control its reentry (it might hit a populated area).
ganymede.nmsu.edu /tharriso/class17.html   (1673 words)

  
 Salyut 7 Space Station
Salyut 7 was very similar to Salyut 6 in design and payload complement.
One of the main objectives of the Salyut 7 program was to continue tests on the behavior of large station complexes using the TKS logistics vehicles from the Almaz program.
The Salyut 7 was occupied for over 800 days during its nine year orbital lifetime.
www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/jgreen/salyut7.html   (186 words)

  
 Salyut 6
The Salyut 6 space station was the first evolved design with two docking ports.
The Salyut 6 station as displayed in Moscow, November 1981.
The Salyut 6 space statiion was the most successful of the DOS series prior to Mir.
www.astronautix.com /craft/salyut6.htm   (559 words)

  
 Salyut 6 EO-1
The EO-1 crew docked with the station’s aft port because of the Soyuz 25 failure.
Their inspection confirmed that the Soyuz 25 spacecraft docking unit was at fault in its failure to hard dock, and that its docking attempts had left the Salyut 6 front port undamaged.
The EO-1 crew remained aboard Salyut 6 until March 16, 1978, when they returned to earth aboard Soyuz 27, leaving the station unoccupied.
www.astronautix.com /flights/salt6eo1.htm   (1001 words)

  
 My Favourites 2
The Russian 1979 Cosmonauts Day stamp has a clear illustration of a cover with the Salyut 6 postmark, from this and other information I have obtained Salyut 6 space station was issued with a postmark at the start of the Intercosmos programme, (the first official space postmark) establishing the first Post Office in space.
Aboard Salyut 6 it received the spaceship postmark of 27-8-78 and the Mission cachet of the same date.
Juri Glaskov was one of the cosmonauts on the Soyuz 24, Salyut 5 Space Project of 1977.
www.asss.utvinternet.com /myfavourite/favouritex2.htm   (865 words)

  
 Salyut 6
Salyut 6 launched on Sept. 29, 1977 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Tyuratam, U.S.S.R. It was lofted using a Proton booster and upper stage.
After the last Salyut 6 cosmonauts left the station, an experimental transport logistics spacecraft docked to it.
Cosmos 1267 remained docked to Salyut 6 until both were deorbited and reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the south Pacific Ocean on June 29, 1982.
www.aerospaceguide.net /spacestation/salyut6.html   (1033 words)

  
 Sandcastle V.I. - Spaceflight Directory - Soyuz Flight Details 3
Mission Highlights: With this mission aboard Salyut 6, the Soviet Union surpassed the flight record set by the Skylab 3 crew in 1973.
During the flight, the cosmonauts conducted a stand-up EVA to examine the main docking collar on the Salyut.
The Salyut station was resupplied by two Progress craft during this mission, and two other Soyuz crews also made visits during the flight.
www.sandcastlevi.com /space/soy-21.htm   (459 words)

  
 Salyut 7: A Space Station Back From the Dead
The crew working onboard Salyut 7 in 1984 performed surgical work on the outside of the station, isolating the damaged portion of the line and installing a bypass segment into the system.
On February 11, 1985, as Salyut 7 was flying unmanned, a ground controller accidentally cut off communications with the station.
Salyut 7 was in working order by the beginning of 1986, while at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, processing crews were preparing a new station for launch.
www.space.com /news/spacestation/mirinteractive_salyut7.html   (502 words)

  
 Final   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was one of a series of large, manoeuvrable spacecraft, some of which (Cosmos 1267 included) were equipped with a crew cabin capable of returning to Earth.
Cosmos 1267 remained with Salyut 6 until the end, just over a year after the departure of the last crew.
Salyut 6/Cosmos 1267 orbit is 318 x 324 kilometres - a firing of Salyut 6's engine reduces the height
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Salyut6/Final.htm   (514 words)

  
 Salyut 6 Space Station
Salyut 6 was the first of the second generation FSU space stations.
These stations were equipped with two docking modules which made it possible to combine short-term and long-term crew durations and provided for logistics resupply using automated vehicles.
During the ~ five years that Salyut 6 was on orbit, it was manned for a total of 676 days.
www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/jgreen/salyut6.html   (1184 words)

  
 Scrambled voice from Salyut 6
The inverted audio spectrum transmitted by the Salyut voice transmitter and received and recorded on the ground is therefore (Fig.
The crew aboard Salyut 6 at this time consisted of commander Col. Vladimir V Kovalyonok and flight engineer Alexander S Ivanchenkov, launched to Salyut 6 on June 15, 1978 aboard Soyuz 29.
The recording starts at 1604.24 UT on July 9, 1978, when the cargo ship Progress 2 had been docked to Salyut 6 for about 3 hours and the crew had obviously started to unload it.
www.svengrahn.pp.se /trackind/scramble/scramble.htm   (735 words)

  
 Salyut 6: A New Space Station Era
Although it resembled its Salyut (or military Almaz space station) predecessors, the spacecraft was a revolution in space station technology.
When it was discarded at the end of the mission and stacked on the external surface of the station, the crew conducted a spacewalk to remove the device.
After Salyut 6 manned operations were discontinued in 1981, a heavy unmanned spacecraft --called TKS and developed using hardware left from the canceled Almaz program -- was docked to the station as a hardware test.
www.space.com /news/spacestation/mirinteractive_salyut6.html   (378 words)

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