FUN SPACE FACT! When Skylab's orbit decayed and it fell back to earth, it landed in the Western Australian Desert and The Western Australia state government fined NASA $700 for littering. NASA actually paid the fine on 2009.
There is a very lentghy and fascinating history to how nasa tracked and managed (and delayed) Skylabs re-entry long before it happened. In general Skylab is a very fascinating episode in space flight. Sadly somewhat forgotten.
At 3:04, the cosmonaut guy is Bertalan Farkas, Hungary's first and to date only person in space. I had the chance to see him speaking a couple of years ago. He still talks about space like an amazed child, with such enthusiasm and passion. A truly remarkable person.
I felt a lot of pride watching this video and I'm not Russian :). I have total respect and pride for all Astronauts, it doesn't matter what country they come from.
Great story. Due to the cold war, everything to do with the Soviet space program was played down in the USA, so I only vaguely remembered the story of Salyut 7. Can't imagine what it must have been like to search for an electrical fault in a frozen space station. Sounds like science fiction.
Technically, I think it sounds like Armaghedon(the movie with Bruce willis and a giant asteroid). I still chuckle when I hear the line "Bravest man". I mean come on, no propaganda and the act of Bruce was heroic, but come on: the damn Russian? He waited into orbit for the mission to arrive, saved an american's ass out of a part burning part freezing space station, lead the second drill safe to the drilling point and also offered to stay with the bomb. And he did that in a comic(funny) style. Come on. Don't make him a secondary character
This 'paranoid secrecy' was primarily the result of USSR not having a civilian space administration, like NASA, but had their space program run by the military. The secrecy on some aspects of US missions was also present, as the NOVA episode on astrospies has shown.
There are some absolutely amazing high quality stories & animation you guys have on this Channel. I'm CONSTANTLY looking forward to the newest episodes and stories. Good stuff.
Richard Ralph Roehl I dont remember them interviewing anybody. They simply gave a factual account of Salute7, the successes it had and the problems it had. As a US type I assume you would prefer a completely negative video concentrating on the problems it had and full of propaganda about how it failed and how useless the Soviets were just to build up your own Low Esteem. Just remember ISS was started years ahead of what it would have been because Russia built the first key self contained unit based on the Mir Station. Also it is as a result of all there experience with the Salute program and Mir program that ISS has lasted so long. All the USA had done in this area was launch one space station to a very low orbit that lasted 91days. Not years.
@@skippy5712 I read that the Russian ISS module is fairly self sufficient and is a crucial component of the ISS. In fact, it is so crucial that Russia has considered decoupling it from the rest of the station in the 2020s and building their own (Russian) station by adding other modules! The Russian module can survive just fine without the rest of the ISS but the entire ISS cannot function without the Russian module!
In a PBS documentary on the Soviet space stations years ago; The "ALMAZ" space station wasn't cancelled immediately ; with 2 being built , launched, and manned, with a 3rd never launched due to program cancellation. Their Cosmonauts revealed that their missions were to find and map military installations, resources, and strengths. This was during the "Cold War". Both the US and Soviets began secretly ramping up their "space station" design programs in the early 60's. Years later President Johnson revealed ours during a speech at a UN assembly meeting regarding our own US station program of the US Air Force called "MOL" (manned orbiting labratory) ; which would've been crewed by USAF astronauts. The Soviets didn't believe that "ours" was just an orbiting lab. Our MOL station was only test launched( as a empty shell with no crew) with the "Gemini- B" modified capsule --once ; and sucessfully returning. But the Soviets were first in getting their "Almaz" stations into orbit fully functional in the early 70's. They stated that with their optics, they mapped a multitude of areas in the US, world, including major cities; and NYC. They watched people walking, outrageous traffic jams, birds on buildings, aircraft in flight, ships, highways, and they could even tell a Chevy from the few Toyota's that were then new to the US. But something they feared a lot was the possibility of our MOL space station being "Armed" with a gun. So on the 2nd "Almaz" they installed a gun to defend their station, but were reluctant to test it while they were still on board due to it's high power ( it was a small artillery cannon)and instead tested it after they'd left for the very last time. --The US improved their surveilance satellites and cancelled their "MOL" station program and the accompaning USAF astronaut training. It's a shame that our ( 15 ?? ) USAF astronauts who trained for the "MOL" space stations never got to space. Then after around 2 years of total service the Soviets cancelled their "ALMAZ" program (1977) ; and shutdown their two stations when they too also improved their satellites. ---The cost of deploying satellites was far less then training space personel, station maintinance, resupply and repair. Thanks; --Tim C
"Salyut 7" is the space station that propelled France and India into the space age: the first French cosmonaut and the first Indian consmonaut stayed on this station. It is a wildly famous space station recognized and remembered in the Free World. Anyone to whom it appears "forgotten" is just too isolated from the Free World to know that.
I saw Salyut 7 reentry. Im from Argentina and in 1992 I was 17 years old. I have recorded in my mind that spectacular night, with almost all sky full of lights, most of them yellow or orange but anothers in blue, green or white. I was so excited that I started screaming "why I dont have my camera here!!!". A day after everybody was talking about Salyout (was in a little town called Ingeniero Luiggi, in La Pampa, maybe 3K people at that time) and somebody told me: "did you hear that crazy guy screaming for his camera?" hehehehe.
Yo ví algo similar en el occidente de mi estado hace muchos años, creo que fue sencillamente un meteorito, pero las fuerzas respondieron antes de que mis amigos y yo podríamos buscarlo.
This was well covered in Phillip Clark's book, _"The Soviet Manned Space Programme."_ Every space enthusiast should get themselves a copy. Good video, BTW.
In every rivalry each side tries to push their accomplishments. Even in the west if we didn't cover their work much it's still better than all the effort the Russians put (and still do) in to trying to discredit the "west's" accomplishments.
I'm Russian and I have read about the Salyut once, as a child, and forgotten all about it afterwards. But I never knew anything about it, like this video told. Amazing stuff, thanks Curious Droid! Something is terribly wrong with the way history is being celebrated in Russia. If it's not Yuri Gagarin, apparently it's not worth talking about.
61gisele, and that progress would be very little, like or not but the Soviet Union like any other rival pushed us to new heights that we wouldn't have gone to if they never dared us to. I dislike the Soviet government, they from day one treated there citizens as lab rats. But even so they did manage to make USA grow like any worthy rival should do
The whole thing wouldn't have happened in the first place if US and Soviets had been all cooperative like. Early on, none of it happened for the sake of science or anything like that, the motivation was to one-up the competition, or to outgun them, or to spy on them. There wouldn't be space rockets in the first place if ballistic missiles and spy satellites weren't needed back then, science and exploration was more of a byproduct of the military and political need.
61gisele, oh because I don't demonize someone who never messed with me personally I'm suddenly a traitor? This is exactly why the world is sick. The world has proven over and over that if no one challenges you, you will never be stronger in fact you might even become weaker. And because I was willing to say ONE good thing about our rival I'm suddenly Judas to you?
61gisele, I actually don't hate Hitler, I strongly dislike the guy and if I saw him in real life I probably would punch him but he's dead and he's been dead for over 60 years. It's hard to hate someone who been dead longer than your grandparents been alive. Do I still hate what he stand for? Yes because I know people still believe it to this day. I just don't see the logic of beating a dead horse that's already had rotted
61gisele, and by you logic you're saying BLM extremist are justified for preaching that all white people are evil just because what some white people did over 100 years ago and what some white people still think
Such a great video. My compliments to Curious Droid for constantly drawing attention to the lesser known, more obscure areas of manned space flight history!
These two cosmonauts were brilliant and fearless and taught the world valuable skills needed for space exploration. It's one real triumph for Soviet science AND all of mankind.
I'm over 40 and this is the first I'm hearing of these spacecraft and incidents. To curious minds this would have been interesting news back in the 1980s. This is what happens when your country's media and government put national pride over human accomplishment. Thanks, Curious Droid, for sharing the history that others have ignored or denied to the people.
But it was far from being interstellar.... That movie was called that because they traveling such extreme distances and left our galaxy. This Russian space station just was in our orbit. Has nothing to do with interstellar travel.
I miss the Space Shuttle. It at least went up at least 5-6 times per year, which was beyond many expectations (I wish they'd stop hyping the '100 launches per year expected' nonsense like they always do. Without that exaggeration/little white lie the STS program would have never stood a chance in hell of going past the planning stages. NASA was on the way to having no manned program from 1975 to at the very least 1995 if the Space Shuttle was decided to not proceed.) Whatever Bezos or Bigelow or Musk come up with in the next 10-15 years will be pathetic in comparison. The only chance we have to have a lunar orbiting station is a NASA/Russia/ESA/Japan combo and the design plan of that 'space station' is going to be similar to a really cramped 1970s Salyut station (one habitable module...maybe one and a half habitable modules for FOUR astronauts/cosmonauts if lucky, similar to a current-day ISS Destiny module plus Harmony module combined together!!!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbital_Platform-Gateway
WRONG! Your shittyass Western European space program can't even send humans to space. Hell you guys have to rely on Russian launch vehicles since the Ariane 5 sucks ass. All you W. Europeans do is piggyback on Russian and American spacecraft for both manned and unmanned spaceflight. And the Shuttle is better than anything prior and anything after its retirement (except for the great Apollo program, of course). The reason the Shuttle blew up twice is because the politicians and NASA managers were ordering the Shuttle to go up in cold weather and refused to listen to engineers. The Shuttles amazingly kept surviving launches and it should have been enough for everyone to find out there were huge problems with O-rings and the bipodal foam ramp.
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Rescuing a dead station and a station to station transfer. I haven't heard of this outside kernel space program and it happened 50 years ago. The Russians were bad asses when it came to space
@Krónika You are aware that millions of people died of starvation and in Gulag camps right? You are aware of how people were thrown into war and shot by their own officers if they retreated right? You are aware of the iron curtain that came down on eastern europe right? Also fun fact: When a russian rocket failed and the abort system triggered (a tower with rocket engines that pulls the crew away at a pretty hefty acceleration that's very painful to experience), the cosmonauts turned of the radio because they knew they would start swearing from all the pain, and if they happened to say the wrong swear words they could have gotten into a lot of shit over it.
@@carljohan9265 "You are aware that millions of people died of starvation and in Gulag camps right? " -lies and propaganda "You are aware of how people were thrown into war and shot by their own officers if they retreated right?" - very stupid lies and propaganda "the cosmonauts turned of the radio because they knew they would start swearing from all the pain" - lies again
@@Sturmovik82 Hmm yes, the old weak-sauce argument of just pretending that you can ignore things that are inconvenient to your world view. I'm pretty fucking sure that those who suffered under Stalin's rule would have a few things to say to you. As would many, many people who's family members starved to death in china thanks to a certain chairman and his "great leap forward". Or people who are starving today in north korea or get put in their prison camps for three generations. Communism is shit, has always been shit, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
oh, the Buran. I stood under it in the technological museum of Speyer, Germany. It really is a work of beauty, way less flashy than the space shuttle but with a simple beauty...
Before the Soviet Union collapsed, I had a pen pal that lived near to the Baikonur Cosmodrome and once in a personal letter, I casually asked about the Buran shuttle. My reply was a few short sentences of '...mail received by me in of opened state' and a few other short suggestions to refrain from asking potentially sensitive questions. I never asked again, -clearly he was frightened of censors reading his 'opened' mail even though glasnost was beginning...
Totally amazing and one of the most amazing feats in every way. Really appreciate this great research by Andy, and super presenter by Paul. All your videos are exceptional and educate us about lesser known great events. Keep them coming. Many thanks.Cheers!👍🙏
this channel is perhaps the best informative channel I've come across, the amount of information that is presented on each video shows how much research and understanding you have for each topic.
I was a student of architecture in the former Soviet Union (Belorus, Minsk) when this happened. I was truly astonished by what Dzhanibekov and Savinikh accomplished. I hope when the Salyut 7 movie comes out, it's translated into English and is available for the rest of the world to see. These guys were true space heroes with "balls of steel".
Wonderful channel! Thanks from Russia! Viktor Savinykh's wife knitted downy hats for her husband and his crewmate before the flight, not realizing how useful they would be to astronauts at the frozen station. According to Viktor Savinykh, the most terrible moment happened when the ice on board began to melt. In zero gravity, the entire station was covered with a thin film of water. At any moment, a short circuit could occur, followed by a fire. They did not think about such a problem on Earth, and the crew was not provided with means for cleaning water. Everything that absorbs moisture well was put into action and even overalls were torn into shreds. Due to the fact that the fans did not work for a long time, carbon dioxide accumulated. We often had to stop and wave something to disperse the air. And when it got hard, we joked and used strong Russian swear words.🙂
The USSR kicked our butts in every measurable way. It is silly when Americans say we "won" the space race because we put a man on the moon, which was just a political publicity stunt with no scientific merit (except for some rocks, which Russia robotically collected and returned three times; it was silly to send people to do a robot's job).
@@davidfilmer1 Bullshit. By the time the US was flying Gemini it had surpassed Soviet capabilities. Their capsules of the era couldn't change orbits, couldn't dock. The US was doing all that, plus long duration missions and high altitude missions. The Soviets didn't even launch a single cosmonaut during Gemini. The US beat the hell out of them in heavy lift, which they failed at for years. The Russians still haven't put a man higher than LEO to this day. NASA's successes on Mars alone eclipse everything the Russians have done with interplanetary science. I could go on.
@Joe Average I think the system can lead to the relentless pursuit of success in whatever area the power chooses, and the people are told that it is their glory.
Fantastic video I never knew about this mission. I'd love some more videos on the soviet space program especially their planned moon project and the zond circumlunar plans
They really should make a movie based on Salyut. There is the Salyut 7 repair mission, Salyut 3 had a 23mm gun, the only effective weapon system ever put in orbit. Soyuz 11 was attempting to fix Salyut 1 after some kind of fire during launch on its mission before its crew of 3 dies on reentry in 1971.
There is a Russian movie called "Salyut 7" that released last year. Its pretty good. Watch the trailer here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--8BBTHmq9wc.html
I find these videos not just fascinating but soothing. I think that's down to the gentle giant of a host with superb music choice. these videos actually help my mental health. thank you
I appreciate the high quality work on your videos, as well as the very interesting and to the point commentary. Russian Space Program was/is fascinating, yet so little information is available ... which makes videos and presentations such as this all the more appreciated.
Interesting vid. I would add that Dzhanibekov indeed spent 110 days on Salyut 7, but Savinykh continued working onboard the station even after his commander returned to Earth. Poised to break the duration record with a new crew, however, he had to return prematurely when his new commander Vasyutin fell ill. After all, Savinykh spent 168 days on Salyut 7 in the course of this mission.
This totally sounds like something from Kerbal Space Program. I would have some problem on a space station I'd made (mostly running out of power) and have to send some Kerbals to go deal with it, including very manual docking. Awesome.
This is a good video. Nice balance between showing Paul and showing historic videos and pictures. And that calming voice makes me want to continue listening. I subscribed!
if to whom it is interesting, then in the fall the 2017th year, the new Russian movie comes out in the Russian cinemas, it and is called: The "salute-7" removed on real events all names and names of participants are kept... on the Internet there are already promo-rollers on this movie...))
I would like to watch it, but I'm affraid they will not show it outside Russia. If you have any recomendation where I could find it I would be thankfull.
Thank you. I teared up a little. Thanks for not mixing in politics and "bad Russians" meme. Dzhanibekov is pronounced as jah-knee-bEh-kov. Your pronunciation was close though.
To be honest, after learning about how we've been lied to about Ukraine/Crimea, I have a hard time trusting anything played on the news media about Russia these days. Maybe they're the Cold War 2.0 bad guy, or maybe they're just running scared thinking of what stupid shit we'll do thinking they're the bad guys (which actually WOULD be a repeat of the Cold War). I'll hold off judgment until I can verify what's being said.
I keep thinking back to the MAD principle of deterrence. Mutually Assured Destruction. This is what kept both the US and USSR from making a first nuclear strike. Something that a man as shrewd as Putin understands, but which Trump does not. ...Actually, pretty much ANYBODY other than Trump understands that.
As an american, i can confirm a large chunk of the population has no qualms with the east, in fact many a man now praises communism openly via violence.
The men responsible for these accomplishments were cosmonauts, and scientists, not politicians. Had members of the politboro been shot into space to fix the station we could then talk about politics, but unfortunately that didn't happen. Besides Russia is no worse than the US, both are superpowers with nuclear arsenals, so if they wish to compete for hegemony (and what superpower doesn't?), they really have no choice but to turn to espionage, and underhanded tactics because the only other option is to incite nuclear annihilation. I can't bring myself to see the Russians, or even Putin as "bad" because I completely understand them. Don't get me wrong, he may be a bit on the authoritarian side in terms of Russia's domestic politics, but his moves on the international front make total sense. I may not agree with them, but they aren't driven by some irrational malice or something, they are understandable, so its hard to see him as some evil guy leading a nation of evil people, especially since my on government employs many of, if not all of the same tactics. Personally I don't believe that Russia had any effect on the outcome of the US election, with the possible exception of the fact that most of us Americans have no desire for war with you, so they went for the candidate that claimed he was willing to reassess, and repair our relationship. Russia has been accused of meddling in an election, but its a well known fact that my government has a long history of meddling in other nations elections, so to call the Russians bad is just the pot calling the kettle black. At any rate, its our governments that have issues with each other, not our two peoples. So from one American, I'm genuinely sorry that our government, and our media (its becoming increasingly difficult to tell where one ends, and the other begins... our nations really are more alike than different lol.), have turned you guys into a meme, and tried to convince us to hate you, its pure hypocrisy, and political mudslinging. Some day, perhaps when smaller countries start to get nukes, and deprive our superpowers of places to fight proxy wars, and slug it out over resources, we'll have no choice but to make peace, and start trading, and I look forward to that day. Maybe then I'll be able to find Kvass, and Kholodets in my grocery store, and I won't have to travel to NY where the Russian ex-pats are to get them.
So much Space History has been already made and even if you re somewhat intrested you didn't hear of stories like that! THX MAN for making these Videos!!!
Very fitting music Paul. Well done. As a One thousand hour plus veteran of KSP, I recognize that music as a comforting, calming background to imminent destruction and explosions. My poor poor Kerbals, yet they bravely soldier on and heroically volunteer for the next explosion, er I mean mission.
What a great story! What a fantastic effort the Russians have put into space exploration. I hope they don't miss the boat when evryone goes out of manned near Earth orbit...
Loved the overview. One little thing though. Space station “Mir”¹ is pronounced with a clear “r” - not “ja” - in the end. ____________________ ¹ Мир in the cyrrillic alphabet
Thanks for this excellent presentation. The Russians/USSR were true pioneers in space exploration, and space stations, now the only way for humans to reach the International space station is via the Soyuz. We await Elon or some other pioneer to enter the arena.
Or we could just deorbit it. It's not like it has made even one single scientific contribution in ten years (and, if you tried to name one, you would have to look it up, and see a bunch of pretty worthless "science").
Thanks for this history lesson. I love how you amazing but obscured stories into the spot light. Much respect for our space pioneers, from all nations. Salute!
I really wish the Soviet Union still exist, at least only for the space achievement of it. Huge nations with state-controlled capital surely can do some amazing feats. The thing is, Gorbachev intended to prevent the Soviet Union from collapsing by trying to make an entirely new state, called the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, a democratic version of the communist USSR. The plan failed, though, and for a really bad few years people living in ex-Soviet states faces uncertainty, crimes, anarchy, or even civil wars and strives still existing until today. All the political ideologies aside, the collapse of a huge state is surely a disaster for a lot of people, and it is for sure a disaster for space exploration and the future of mankind.
Gorbachev in his country is considered a traitor. He wanted the country to gradually enter the capitalist world while maintaining the social orientation of the country. Gorbachev believed that the USSR would enter the league of the leading Western powers, the so-called golden billion. Being an economically developed country of the 2nd tier, like Germany and France, without claiming to dominate the world. Losing a leading role was the price the country would pay for prosperity and a good life. The leaders of the West supported him in this. Although in reality it was a bluff. The West neither the USSR nor the modern Russia is needed. The main goal was to weaken and rob a competitor. Remove the USSR from the world political arena. They could not go to war, since the USSR has nuclear weapons. But they supported all attempts to disintegrate the state from the inside. The United States perceived this as a victory in the Cold War, and the USSR as an opportunity to become part of the world community. Having removed the USSR, the USA had the opportunity to wage wars in different parts of the world with impunity, and began to rebuild the world at its discretion. In the USSR, there was a lot of refor. For example, borders for western goods were opened, as a result of which the own economy began to fall apart, and the government ceased to support enterprises - putting them into free floating. And enterprises could not stand the competition. Products manufactured in the USSR were destroyed causing an artificial shortage and unrest of the people. The country was ruined by the leadership, because many tried to profit, get rich and leave the country, and the United States supported them in this. The people paid for all this - war, poverty, humiliation. For 10 years the country was at a dead end. And now we are looking at modern Russia, which, realizing its mistakes, is slowly recovering. Therefore, the United States imposes sanctions and in every way threatens Russia, because this country prevents it from doing what it wants.
@@arrant638 Typical crybaby nonsense. The USSR was on a dictatorship on the brink. There was no need to "support" a disintegration from the inside as the USSR was nicely doing that to itself. What you have now is just a bunch of kids who grew up after the fact dreaming about some mythical past where the USSR was "great" and is willing to trade away their freedoms to let putin build it up again. And crying about sanctions and stopping russian from "doing what you want".. you're invading sovereign countries, at what line do you think people should stop you?
I am going to guess the actual kosmonaut / astronaut didn't graduate from the Prometheus school so they didn't take off all their clothes and dive into the damaged station.
Excellent video! Can't wait to see the Salyut-7 movie! Even though the story is dramatized for the sake of entertainment, it still is a movie worth watching! That and Space Walker, telling the story of the first space walk ever, done by Alexei Leonov!
Why did nasa choose to go with shuttle? who made the call? why didnt we get the Saturn derivatives option, with a dreamchaser/ HL20 for manned missions? Great video
WE partly made the call too. We stopped caring halfway through Apollo (hell, we stopped caring at 13, but then the harrowing rescue gave a little fresh interest in 14). When we stop tuning in, and we ask Congress "why are we funding this program?" Congress pulls the plug, putting their own re-election chances over the good of the nation (short definition of Congressman)
DoD made :) Same as russian Buran it's *primary* purpose was to support SDI missions (Reagan's Star Wars). Which never came which made it inherited by NASA (who never needed a vehicle this large)
@@yamiNoShoryuu Bullshit. Shuttle design was locked in years before Reagan was elected or SDI was even a dream. The Air Force had some dreams of tinkering with Soviet satellites but that's about it.
