The History of Space Stations

Even before Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, people began thinking about how we could permanently live in space. The idea of having a place to go in Earth orbit was nothing new and even predated actual human spaceflight. When humans did finally make it to space in the early 1960s, it became obvious that they had nowhere to go. After Skylab, all space station activity for almost the next 25 years was by the Soviets. They launched five more salut space stations that could host cosmonauts for longer and longer lengths of time. Americans during this period had plans for a space station that never materialized. With the Soviet Union gone, the space race wasn't so much

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