Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 26, 1974, Salyut 4, a Soviet space station, launched into orbit around Earth. Salyut 4 was a small space station about the ...
On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union launched under its Salyut program and the first second-generation Salyut space ...
In 1974, the Soviet Union secretly test fired a modified aircraft cannon from its Salyut 3 space station, creating the only confirmed case of a weapon discharged in orbit. Hidden for decades, the ...
On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies ...