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