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Salyut 3 (Russian: Салют-3, lit. 'Salute 3', also known as OPS-2 [1] or Almaz 2 [2]) was a Soviet space station launched on 25 June 1974. It was the second Almaz military space station, and the first such station to be launched successfully. [2]
Russia has the corner on guns in space – MSNBC, Feb. 12, 2008; TP-82 : Russian space pistol / shotgun / carbine / flare gun no longer being carried into space (with photos) – The Firearm Blog; Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun into space; The TOZ-81 'Mars' Gun Was The Soviet Union's Ultimate Space Revolver, including information on the TP-82
Line drawing of an Almaz space station Almaz space station at VDNKh (Russia) The Almaz (Russian: Алмаз, lit. 'Diamond') program was a highly secret Soviet military space station program, begun in the early 1960s. Three crewed military reconnaissance stations were launched between 1973 and 1976: Salyut 2, Salyut 3 and Salyut 5.
Two Russian cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Thursday to conduct an hours-long spacewalk outside the outpost.. Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, both cosmonauts with the ...
The space station’s crew includes Roscosmos’ Aleksandr Gorbunov, Ivan Vagner and Alexey Ovchinin. NASA’s Pettit, Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are also a part of Expedition 72 ...
Five astronauts aboard the International Space Station were forced to take shelter and three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station were endangered by the resulting debris cloud. [3] The Federal Air Transport Agency filed an airspace notice over Plesetsk Cosmodrome that morning; [ 4 ] Federal Assembly committee on defense chair Yury ...
All Russian human spaceflight missions thus far have been carried out using the Soyuz vehicle, and all visited either Mir or the International Space Station. The Roscosmos program is the successor to the Soviet space program. Numeration of the Soyuz flights therefore continues from previous Soviet Soyuz launches.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an ...