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Explore history, facts, modules, and life on board Salyut 5.
Salyut 5
The last Almaz station to fly under the Salyut name.
Salyut 5 was the public name for OPS-3, the third and final Almaz military station placed in orbit. NASA's Russian space station history lists it among the first-generation military Salyut stations, while Spacefacts records Soyuz 21 as its first resident crew. The station supported reconnaissance-oriented operations, biomedical and engineering experiments, and later hosted Soyuz 24 after the Soyuz 23 docking attempt failed.
Program
Almaz
NASA classifies Salyut 5 as the last of the first-generation military stations flown under the Salyut name.
First crew
Soyuz 21
Boris Volynov and Vitaly Zholobov docked with Salyut 5 in July 1976 and remained aboard for just over 49 days.
Reentry
1977-08-08
Next Spaceflight records Salyut 5 as deorbited after a 412-day mission.
All values are approximate and vary with configuration.