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On this day in space! July 29, 1982: Soviet Salyut 6 space station falls to Earth
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Click for next articleOn July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way.
Salyut 6 was the eighth space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut program .
(Image credit: Rosccosmos)Why it matteredLaunched in 1977, Salyut 6 marked an evolution of space station design for the then-Soviet Union.
(Image credit: Roscosmos)Salyut 6 also had an airlock for spacewalks and has been hailed as the first "second generation" space station .
The advancements demonstrated on Salyut 6 can be seen in routine use on the International Space Station today.