19 April 1971: Salyut 1 ("Salute 1") lifted off from the Kazakh S.S.R.'s Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Proton-K rocket; the world's first space station carried the Orion 1 ultraviolet space telescope & was a modification of the Soviet military's secret Almaz ("Diamond") spy stations then under development; the Salyut lineage continues to this day with the International Space Station's Zvezda ("Star") module.
The Phenomenauts, "Navitron" from For All Mankind (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
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