Almaz program
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The Almaz program was a highly secret Soviet military space station program, begun in the early 1960s.
Almaz space station at VDNKh (Russia)
Almaz-1A
Space station
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A space station is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. It is therefore an artificial satellite featuring habitation facilities. The purpose of maintainin
First description of a rotating space station, in Hermann Noordung's The Problem of Space Travel (1929). (Legend: Achs-Körper: axle body. Aufzugschacht: elevator shaft. Treppenschacht: stairwell. Verdampfungsrohr: boiler pipe).
Skylab (1973–1974), the first U.S. space station and second overall
Mir station seen in 1998
View of the International Space Station in 2021