July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... Balashova’s watercolour designs defined modules and furniture for the interiors of Soyuz, as well as the Mir and Salyut space stations. French-borm American industrial designer, Raymond Loewy’s designs for Skylab emphasised efficiency and...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... by beginning what we now call the debris problem. A military space station, Almaz, was concealed within the Salyut space station programme and it was only afterwards that we learned that cannon was installed to fend off...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... them from orbit. In 1984, Russian students built small Iskra satellites released through the airlock of the Salyut orbital station. The Japanese built a facility for deploying micro-satellites from their Kibo module on the...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... May; a move that will make it the most massive object to make an uncontrolled reentry since the 39-tonne Salyut-7 in 1991, says Jonathan McDowell an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, via Twitter. An artist’s illustration...
01 April 2020
Alcohol in Space
... science out of a religious event. The “first reported alcohol consumption” by Russian spacefarers was during the 1971 Salyut-7 mission when one of the cosmonaut’s birthdays was celebrated with a small bottle of Armenian Cognac; apparently, Cognac...
