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Space station Salyut

On June 30, 1971, the crew of Soyuz 11 was returning from a22-day, first-ever trip to a manned space station, Salyut 1. Their re-entry capsule depressurized during descent and all three crew asphyxiated. [Pg.259]

The design of space stations evolved since the first space station missions of the early 1970 s. The space stations of the Salyut and other programs were monolithic structures, so called because they were designed as centralized spacecraft. Later space stations favored modular designs that allow diverse elements to be added as needed. For example, the ISS is made up of several modules added over several years. The most common uses of space stations by scientists are as laboratories for experiments in a range of life and material sciences. [Pg.1712]

The first space station in orhit around Earth was the Salyut 1, the first of several Soviet space stations launched between 1971 and 1982. Despite its overall success, the mission ended in tragedy when a depressurization accident resulted in the deaths of its three crew members. Other early Salyut missions were plagued with system failures and equipment malfunctions, but later missions were large-scale successes, in part because of the increased duration of their time in orbit and the vast amount of data gathered about the effects of space environments on the human body and the overall viability of space stations as research laboratories. [Pg.1713]

The Salyut 1 mission launched in April, 1971, and returned to Earth in October after 175 days. The Russian space station Mir launched in February, 1986, and returned in March, 2001, after 5,510 days in orbit, which remains the record for mission duration. The ISS was launched in 1998 and may remain in orbit until 2020. Future space station designs are expected to extend these periods, leading to semipermanent living and working facilities that will be operable for decades or more. The obstacles that must be overcome to make this happen involve funding and political issues, as well as the outcomes of the continuous research on the long-term effects of these environments on humans. [Pg.1714]

In 1992 the experiment, called Gel-l , was carried out on the Mir space station. The goal of the experiment was to study the evolution of frontal photopolymerization in conditions of real microgravity. GeH was a logical sequel to the orbital experimental studies jointly performed by V.Leont ev (the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Tashkent), A.Mashinsky (the Institute of Medical-Biological Problems, Moscow) and G.Nechitailo ( Energy Space Corporation, Moscow) in 1980-1988 (7- ) on board "Salyut" and Mir orbital stations. While pursuing here the objective other than a review of the literature we will only mention that experiments on polymer production have been undertaken also on other space vehicles and aircrafts (5-9). [Pg.97]


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