It was April 19, 1971. Salyut-1, the world’s first space station, was just launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union. Two months later, on June 6, 1971, the Soyuz 11 [Soy-ooz] traveled to the orbiting space station with cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev [Pat-sigh-yev] on […]
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