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* 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
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1971 and Launch
Prospero was launched at 04: 09 GMT on 28 October 1971, from Launch Area 5B ( LA-5B ) at Woomera, South Australia on a Black Arrow rocket, making Britain the sixth nation to place a satellite into orbit using a domestically developed carrier rocket.
1971 and Salyut
* 1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.
The first space station was Salyut 1, which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.
* 1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by Kerim Kerimov
Four Salyut space stations had already been launched since 1971, with three more being launched during Mirs development.
* Salyut 1 – 19 April 1971 – First space station
The Salyut programme (,, Salute or Fireworks ) was the first space station program undertaken by the Soviet Union, which consisted of a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations over a period of 15 years from 1971 to 1986.
Following this same basic concept, in 1973 MSFC used a modified stage of Saturn V to put into orbit Skylab, but this was preceded by the Soviet Union's Salyut in 1971, then followed by their Mir in 1986.
Soyuz 10 (, Union 10 ) was in 1971 the world's first mission to the world's first space station, the Soviet Salyut 1.
Soyuz 10 was launched 22 April 1971 with the plan to dock to Salyut 1.
Salyut 1 ( DOS-1 ) (; English translation: Salute 1 ) was the first space station of any kind, launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.
The first space station, Salyut 1 ( also called DOS-1 ) had been launched by the Soviet Union in April 1971.
Only one mission successfully docked with Salyut 1, which was Soyuz 11, whose three person crew stayed aboard the station for 22 days in June 1971.
Having lost the race to the Moon, the Soviets shifted their attention to orbital space stations, launching the first ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.
The flight set a Soviet mission-duration record of 29 days, surpassing the 23-day record set by the ill-fated Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1 in 1971.
Furthermore, its crew were the first space station occupants ever to return safely to Earth – the only other space station occupants, the crew of the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission that had manned the Salyut 1 station, were killed during reentry.
Three crewed military reconnaissance stations were launched between 1971 and 1974: Salyut 2, Salyut 3 and Salyut 5.
* DOS-1, which formed the basis for Salyut 1 space station, in 1971 the first space station in the history of space flight
Mir was based upon the Salyut series of space stations previously launched by the Soviet Union ( seven Salyut space stations had been launched since 1971 ), and was mainly serviced by Russian-manned Soyuz spacecraft and Progress cargo ships.
Kerimov later went on to launch the first space docks ( Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 ) in 1967 and the first space stations ( Salyut and Mir series ) from 1971 to 1991.
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