What was the first space station ever launched?
Salyut 1 was the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union on the 19th of April 1971. Its first crew flew aboard Soyuz 11, and the mission ended with the deaths of the entire crew.
Questions about Space station
Short answers, pulled from the story.
How long have humans been continuously living in space on a space station?
Uninterrupted human presence in orbital space has been sustained since October 2000, when Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station. Before that, consecutive occupation stretched back to Mir in 1987.
What is the longest single spaceflight record set aboard a space station?
Valeri Polyakov holds the record for the longest single spaceflight, spending 437.75 days aboard the Mir space station from 1994 to 1995. Four cosmonauts in total completed missions of more than a year, all on Mir.
What is the most people ever on a space station at the same time?
The record for people on a single space station is 13, first reached during the eleven-day docking of STS-127 with the ISS in 2009. The record across all space stations simultaneously is 17, first achieved on the 30th of May 2023.
When did China complete its Tiangong Space Station?
The Tiangong Space Station was declared complete on the 5th of November 2022. Its core module had launched on the 29th of April 2021, and two laboratory modules added in 2022 raised its crew capacity to six.
Who first described a space station and when?
Edward Everett Hale wrote the first description of anything resembling a space station in 1868, in a story called "The Brick Moon." The first scientifically grounded proposals came from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth in the early twentieth century.