What was the name of the Soviet space station?
Origins of the International Space Station Origins of the International Space Station Origins of the International Space Station covers the origins of ISS. The International Space Station program represents a combination of three national space station projects: the Russian/Soviet Mir-2, NASA's "Freedom" including the Japanese Kibō laboratory, and the European "Columbus" space stations. Canadian robotics supplement these projects. In the early 1980s, NASA planned to launch a modular space station called "Freedom" as a counterpart to the Soviet Salyut and "Mir" space stations. In 1984 the ESA was invited to participate in Space Station Freedom, and the ESA approved the Columbus laboratory by 1987. The Japanese
Politics of the International Space Station Politics of the International Space Station Politics of the International Space Station begins with the 1972 milestone in co-operation between the United States and the Soviet Union in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This cooperative venture resulted in the July 1975 docking of Soyuz 19 with an Apollo spacecraft. From 1978 to 1987, the USSR's Interkosmos programme included allied Warsaw Pact countries, and countries which were not Soviet allies, such as India, Syria and France, in manned and unmanned missions to Space stations Salyut 6 and 7. In 1986 the USSR extended this co-operation to a dozen countries in the