The space age began about twelve years before the first man landed on the moon on October 4, 1957, with the launching of first artificial satellite sputnik by the then soviet union, Gradually both the US and Soviet Union started sending artificial satellites into the space to study the universe and its expanse. They also felt the need of a permanent station to be built in the space so as to facilitate the studies of the outer space.
Today space stations orbit the earth and one day we or our children may live in space. A station is a special kind of satellite in which astronomers or space scientist live and work for week or even months. The first space station, Salyut 1 was launched by the USSR in April 1971.
Skylab was first US space station put into orbit in 1973. Nine astronauts in three crews spent 28, 59 and 84 days respectively; in the Earth’s orbit abroad Skylab. Skylab stayed in space for six years and studied the sun the earth’s orbit aboard Skylab. Skylab stayed in space station was launched in to orbit on February 20, 1986. A soviet space and set record of and it has been devised to sink it in to pacific by March 2000.
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