While most Western space enthusiasts remember the American Skylab space station, only some recall the long series of Soviet orbiting labs called the Salyut space stations. The last of these, Salyut 7, ...

Salyut 7 is the eighth aircraft of the Soviet Union's space station development project 'Salyut Project'. After Salyut 6 was launched in September 1977, the development plan for the next space station ...