00:00On This Day in Space
00:03In 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit.
00:07This was the eighth space station the Soviet Union launched under its Salyut program,
00:11and the first, second-generation Salyut space station.
00:14Unlike its predecessors, Salyut 6 was able to accommodate long-duration crewed missions.
00:18Over the course of its five years in operation, 16 cosmonaut crews visited the station.
00:23The longest anyone stayed there was 185 days.
00:26The space station deorbited in 1982 and burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
00:30And that's what happened on this day in space.
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