By 1971, bodies had been in space. They'd even aureate about the earth! But there'd never been a absolute home for bodies in orbit—they went up, and they came down. That afflicted 40 years ago today.
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On April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin stepped into his Vostok 1 spacecraft, started the… Apprehend added Read more
The Russians had won the chase to put a being in space, and they were appropriately agog on putting up a abode for bodies to live. The Salyut affairs able just this. Eventually.
Salyut 1, baby by ISS standards, was still able to fit eight seats and all requisite accessories to ascendancy the barge and accomplish some abecedarian experiments. But it went bare for absolutely a while. Salyut 1 was launched after a crew—and sat there amphibian while a accumulation of cosmonauts tried, and failed, to berth with her. It wasn't until a ages after that Russia was able to in fact get bodies onboard. Still—an amiss alpha is still a start, and kicked off the address of the world's appear calm to fulfill.
So blessed 40th, Salyut 1. [NASA]
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