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Salyut broke several spaceflight records, including the first space station, several mission duration records, the first ever orbital handover of a space station from one crew to another, and various spacewalk records.

By the time the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and the Soviet space station program was concluded, it had seen space station technology evolve from basic, engineering development stage, single-docking port stations to complex, multi-ported long-term orbital outposts with impressive scientific capabilities, whose technological legacy continues to the present day.

Ultimately, experience gained from the Salyut stations went on to pave the way for multimodular space stations such as Mir and the International Space Station, with each of those stations possessing a Salyut-derived core module at its heart.