* Astronomy

The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia. All week there has been mounting speculation over where the spacecraft would come down. It has been in orbit six years - for the past five...

Salyut 4 (DOS 4) was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. Read more

Salyut 7 (aka DOS-6) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first manned in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15. Various crew and modules were used over its lifetime, including a total of 12 manned and 15 unmanned launch...

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Space station 1979: Skylab tumbles back to Earth (Preview)	Mission News	4	1157	Jul 11 00:40 2010 by Blobrana
The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia. All week there has been mounting speculation over where the spacecraft would come down. It has been in orbit six years - for the past five...
Space station Salyut 4 space station (Preview)	Space missions	3	1081	Feb 2 08:20 2013 by Blobrana
Salyut 4 (DOS 4) was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. Read more
Space station Salyut 7 (Preview)	Space missions	2	1022	Feb 6 22:38 2014 by Blobrana
Salyut 7 (aka DOS-6) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first manned in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15. Various crew and modules were used over its lifetime, including a total of 12 manned and 15 unmanned launch...