Salyut 1, also known as DOS-1, was the world's first space station. The Soviet Union launched it into low Earth orbit on 19 April 1971, adapting the airframe of the military Almaz station into five parts: a transfer compartment, a main compartment, two auxiliary compartments and the Orion 1 space observatory. The Soyuz 10 crew failed to enter it after a docking fault, but the Soyuz 11 crew lived aboard for 23 days. They died of asphyxia on the way home when a valve opened in their capsule, the only deaths of humans above the Karman line, so the mission ended and the station burned up on reentry on 11 October 1971.
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It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.
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