First Space Station
It was derived from the almaz reconnaissance platform designed in the 1960s by soviet aerospace engineer vladimir chelomey and adapted for use with the soyuz manned spacecraft originally developed by his rival sergey korolyov for the soviet moon landing program.
First space station. The military stations salyut 2 salyut 3 and salyut 5 were also known as almaz stations. The station was small compared to the modern day iss measuring just 20 metres 65 feet in length and four metres 13 feet wide. The first ever manned outpost to orbit the earth was salyut 1 launched by the soviet union on 19 april 1971.
Early visions of orbiting space stations predated the space age and the soviet union orbited its first experimental space station salyut in 1971. The earlier soviet stations were all designated salyut but among these there were two distinct types. Despite an array of problems the first space station salyut 1 made important progress toward living and working in space long term and paved the way for future space stations.