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19 April 1971

Salyut 1

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- Salyut 1: How the First Space Station Was Built From Almaz
  
  Scott Manley marks 50 years since Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
  
  Published 18 May 2021
TIROS 1

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- TIROS 1: The First Weather Satellite and Its Fuzzy First Images
  
  The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's On Air series looks at TIROS 1, the world's first weather satellite, launched in 1960.
  
  Published 10 Sep 2026
YES2

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- YES2: How a 31.7 km Tether Was Meant to Drop a Capsule
  
  YES2 (Young Engineers Satellite 2) was a European Space Agency tether experiment carried on the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft.
  
  Published 30 Sep 2026
Bridging the Swarm

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- Rocket Lab Electron Bridging the Swarm: NEONSAT-1A Launch Scrubbed
  
  Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut hosts a watch-along of Rocket Lab's webcast for the Electron mission "Bridging the Swarm", which was to carry the NEONSAT-1A satellite for KAIST from Launch Complex 1…
  
  Published 11 Dec 2025
Photo: Mat Fascione / CC BY-SA 2.0
NS-28

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- NS-28: Emily Calandrelli’s New Shepard Flight, Start to Landing
  
  Emily Calandrelli documents her November 2024 flight on Blue Origin's New Shepard, the NS-28 mission, which made her the 100th woman to fly to space.
  
  Published 6 Feb 2025
Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Public domain
STS-109 Hubble Servicing Mission 3B

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- STS-109: Columbia’s Hubble Upgrade and the Leaking Spacesuit
  
  NASA's Servicing Mission 3B, flown on space shuttle Columbia as STS-109, was the fourth visit to the Hubble Space Telescope and lasted 12 days with five spacewalks.
  
  Published 1 Mar 2021
Photo: NASA Hubble Space Telescope / Public domain
Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions

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- Fixing Hubble: Cepollina on Five Servicing Missions and COSTAR
  
  Frank Cepollina of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gives a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum lecture on the five Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.
  
  Published 14 May 2015
Photo: NASA / Public domain
Hubble Servicing Mission 4

The last repair visit to Hubble, saved from cancellation

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Servicing Mission 4 was the fifth and final astronaut visit to the Hubble Space Telescope, flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis as STS-125 from 11 May 2009. Seven astronauts installed two new instruments, repaired two failed ones in orbit for the first time, and replaced the gyroscopes and batteries that keep Hubble working.
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- Hubble Servicing Mission 4: From Cancellation to Final Repair
  
  Servicing Mission 4 was the fifth and final servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
  
  Published 11 May 2021
Photo: NASA / Public domain
Skylab

America's first space station, wounded at launch

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Skylab was NASA's first space station, built from Apollo hardware and launched on the last Saturn V on 14 May 1973. It lost its meteoroid shield and a solar array during the climb, was repaired in orbit by its first crew, hosted three crews for 171 days in all, and fell to Earth over Western Australia on 11 July 1979.
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- Skylab: Repairing America’s First Space Station and Its 1979 Fall
  
  The History Guy recounts Skylab, America's first manned space station, built from the second stage of a Saturn V and launched on May 14, 1973.
  
  Published 12 Jul 2017
- Skylab 1973: Repairing the Workshop and Living in Weightlessness
  
  A NASA documentary on Skylab, which launched on May 14, 1973.
  
  Published 25 Sep 2017
- How Skylab Was Saved: The Stuck Solar Array and Chance Tools
  
  A documentary on how Skylab was damaged during its Saturn V launch, when a heat shield was torn away and one solar array was left stuck.
  
  Published 18 Apr 2020
- Skylab’s 1979 Reentry: How Debris Ended Up Across Western Australia
  
  ABC television and radio coverage from July 1979 follows Skylab's return to Earth.
  
  Published 30 May 2020
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Mir Space Station

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- Mir in 1997: Fire, a Failed Docking System and a Progress Collision
  
  A documentary-style account of the Mir space station, from its 1986 core module launch to the troubled year 1997.
  
  Published 23 Jun 2021
We're Not Hawking Around

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- Rocket Lab’s 98th Electron Launch Deploys Three HawkEye 360 Satellites
  
  Rocket Lab launched its 98th Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on the mission 'We're Not Hawking Around', its third dedicated launch for HawkEye 360.
  
  Published 23 Oct 2026
Photo: NASA / Public domain
Galileo

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- Galileo: How Europe Built Its Own Satellite Navigation System
  
  ESA's documentary traces Galileo and EGNOS from the 1990s, when Europe sought independence from GPS, through the GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B test satellites and the first operational launches.
  
  Published 15 Oct 2026

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Salyut 1

Salyut 1: How the First Space Station Was Built From Almaz

TIROS 1

TIROS 1: The First Weather Satellite and Its Fuzzy First Images

YES2

YES2: How a 31.7 km Tether Was Meant to Drop a Capsule

Bridging the Swarm

Rocket Lab Electron Bridging the Swarm: NEONSAT-1A Launch Scrubbed

NS-28

NS-28: Emily Calandrelli’s New Shepard Flight, Start to Landing

STS-109 Hubble Servicing Mission 3B

STS-109: Columbia’s Hubble Upgrade and the Leaking Spacesuit

Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions

Fixing Hubble: Cepollina on Five Servicing Missions and COSTAR

Hubble Servicing Mission 4

Hubble Servicing Mission 4: From Cancellation to Final Repair

Skylab

Skylab: Repairing America’s First Space Station and Its 1979 Fall

Skylab 1973: Repairing the Workshop and Living in Weightlessness

How Skylab Was Saved: The Stuck Solar Array and Chance Tools

Skylab’s 1979 Reentry: How Debris Ended Up Across Western Australia

Mir Space Station

Mir in 1997: Fire, a Failed Docking System and a Progress Collision

We're Not Hawking Around

Rocket Lab’s 98th Electron Launch Deploys Three HawkEye 360 Satellites

Galileo

Galileo: How Europe Built Its Own Satellite Navigation System