Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 27 2009

There were a number of expeditions to Salyut space stations. Initially these were not numbered, however the crews of Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were numbered EO-n", where n is sequentially increased with each expedition to that particular station. The list of Expeditions did not include short term visits, or "taxi crews" delivering a new Soyuz spacecraft.

The Salyut programme was a series of Soviet space stations launched during the 1970s and 1980s. Six Salyut space stations were manned, whilst a number of other stations were not, either due to failures, or because they were prototypes and not designed to be manned. Manned flights as part of the Salyut programme ended in 1986, when Salyut was superseded by Mir. (more...)