Space station (Salyut 1 and Skylab)
Estación espacial (Salyut 1 y Skylab)
- Date
- 1971-1973 · confidence high
- Place
- Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Salyut 1, 1971); Kennedy Space Center, United States (Skylab, 1973)
- Credited to
- OKB-1/TsKBEM (Salyut); NASA (Skylab)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
The first inhabited laboratories in orbit, where human life in weightlessness was studied for weeks and months. They established the model of a permanent presence in space.
What it led to
- The modular Mir station and the ISS
- Long-duration space medicine
- International space cooperation after Apollo-Soyuz (1975)
Built on
- Noordung's rotating space station (Potočnik)1928-1929
- Human spaceflight (Vostok 1) and SK-1 spacesuit1961
- crewed Vostok flight
- Proton and Saturn V rockets