November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... and crowns were reported and at least one severe incident with extreme pain occurred during the Salyut 6 mission [3]. Skylab 2 commander Pete Conrad undergoes a dental examination by medical officer Joseph Kerwin. In the absence of an examination...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
...simultaneously. For example, the US Skylab along with various Salyut space stations of the former Soviet Union, the International ...well as short-term overlaps of two generations of the Salyut space stations. However, in all these cases, the stations...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
...life of food, a lunar base must be equipped with refrigerators; indeed, such devices were an integral part of the Salyut 6, Salyut 7 and Mir stations. Moreover, in order to broaden the product variety on the lunar base, it is necessary to deploy deep...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
...Station (ISS) is larger and more capable than the 1970s Salyuts and Skylab, it is not a step change and, to... half of the ISS is based on modules developed for the first Salyut space stations. Reaction Engines’ Skylon spaceplane. So while we marvel at ...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... a TV interview. “And I got scared! I looked out of the Salyut-6 orbital station viewport and saw that we were being followed by ‘saucers’. ... long time When a visiting crew arrived on board the Salyut-6 station, Grechko decided to play a joke on the ...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...2009 Roadmap to 2050 Russia flew the first space station (Salyut, 1971) and has more space station experience than any ...Union had flown guest cosmonauts from 1978, arguably making Salyut 6 the ‘first’ international space station and guest arrangements...
