Salyut space stations

first space station launched by the Soviet Union

Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974

former Soviet orbital space station

space station launched on 19 April 1982

Soviet space station launched on 25 June 1974

Soviet space station which was launched in 1973

Soviet Salyut space station that malfunctioned shortly after launch

Soviet space station launched in 1976

DOS-2 was a space station, launched as part of the Salyut programme, which was lost in a launch failure on 29 July 1972, when the failure of the second stage of its Proton-K launch vehicle prevented the station from achieving orbit. It instead fell into the Pacific Ocean. The station, which would have been given the designation Salyut 2 had it reached orbit, was structurally identical to Salyut 1, as it had been assembled as a backup unit for that station. Four teams of cosmonauts were formed to crew the station, of which two would have flown: Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov Vasily Lazarev an