OTD In Space – July 29: Salyut 6 Space Station Falls To Earth
On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way.
Salyut 6 was the eighth space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut program. It spent almost five years in orbit and supported five different crewed cosmonaut missions. While aboard Salyut 6, those cosmonauts made astronomical observations and studied the effects of spaceflight on the human body. Though the aging space station was still considered fully functional in 1982, a mold problem in the crew quarters led the Soviets to abandon the orbiting lab. They intentionally sent it plunging toward Earth, where it would burn up in the atmosphere before hitting the ground.
Salyut 6 was the eighth space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut program. It spent almost five years in orbit and supported five different crewed cosmonaut missions. While aboard Salyut 6, those cosmonauts made astronomical observations and studied the effects of spaceflight on the human body. Though the aging space station was still considered fully functional in 1982, a mold problem in the crew quarters led the Soviets to abandon the orbiting lab. They intentionally sent it plunging toward Earth, where it would burn up in the atmosphere before hitting the ground.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03In 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way.
00:09Salyut 6 was the 8th space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut program.
00:14It spent almost 5 years in orbit and supported 5 different crewed missions.
00:18While aboard Salyut 6, those cosmonauts made astronomical observations and studied the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
00:24Though the aging space station was still considered fully functional in 1982,
00:28a mold problem in the crew quarters led the Soviets to abandon the orbiting lab.
00:32They intentionally sent it plunging towards Earth, where it would burn up in the atmosphere before hitting the ground.
00:37And that's what happened on this day in space.
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