[AS] The World’s First Space Station

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Rosjanie po porażce wysłania ludzi na Księżyc , okazali się konkurencyjni w budowie stacji orbitalnej.

‘The Main Road’: The World’s First Space Station (Part 1)
by Ben Evans April 20, 2013


Artist’s concept of Soyuz 10 approaching the Salyut 1/DOS space station in April 1971. Image Credit: Roscosmos

(...) By the autumn of 1970, all of the cosmonauts with the exception of Dobrovolski’s Crew Four were training intensely for their missions; the latter trio began formal classes in January of the following year. Much of what happened in the spring of 1971 to change the crew set-up for the first DOS missions surrounded Georgi Shonin. In the months after his first flight, Soyuz 6, in October 1969, Shonin became increasingly dependent on alcohol. In early February 1971, his drunkenness had caused him to miss an important training session. Vasili Mishin was furious and told Kamanin that Shonin would “never fly again in my spaceships!” Shonin was apologetic and implored Kamanin to retain command of Soyuz 10, but to no avail. So it was that Vladimir Shatalov, the most experienced military cosmonaut in terms of rendezvous and docking and the man pointed at the first DOS-1 mission right from the start, now re-entered the game in pole position. He would command Soyuz 10 in Shonin’s place. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2013/04/20/the-main-road-the-worlds-first-space-station-part-1/

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‘Tense and Magnificent’: The World’s First Space Station (Part 2)
by Ben Evans April 21, 2013


Salyut 1, the world’s first Earth-orbiting space station, in orbit. This would represent the start of a Soviet and Russian journey in long-duration spaceflight which continues to this day. Photo Credit: Roscosmos

(...) The reality would not be known for many years. Even in the early 1990s, it was still widely suspected that some difficulty in equalizing pressure between the Soyuz and Salyut was to blame. This possibility was also aired by Soviet space analyst Phillip Clark in his 1988 book, The Soviet Manned Space Programme. There was also speculation that Rukavishnikov suffered debilitating space sickness and that this contributed to the premature return to Earth. Former cosmonaut Boris Yegorov, the first doctor to fly in space, was quoted as saying Rukavishnikov experienced “unusual and rather unpleasant feelings” as a result of the increased blood flow to his head—a normal consequence of entering the weightless environment—and even that he had suffered severe vertigo and been unable to move into the large interior of Salyut. In truth, Rukavishnikov’s biomedical data confirmed that he coped well and he actually felt better than either Shatalov or Yeliseyev, but in the absence of any other explanations, such stories persisted for more than two decades. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2013/04/21/tense-and-magnificent-the-worlds-first-space-station-part-2/