Long-duration orbital habitats designed for a crew to live and work aboard for extended periods, assembled or maintained in orbit rather than launched as a single crewed vehicle. Belongs here: any modular or permanent crewed outpost in orbit. Does not belong here: the vehicles that ferry a crew to and from such a station, grouped under Crewed Spacecraft.
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1. Wikipedia: Salyut 1
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It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.
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