It depends how you define space station, the Unmanned Atlas-Agena docking platform was used in the Gemini shots as a sort of practice device for rendezvous and docking This was in the mid-late sixties- once coupled to the Agena stage- the astros could light off the Agena engine and in theory boost their orbit- there were a number of seriious problems with the coupling procedure, and it is a good thing the Agena was unmanned- but a useful training device, like AA drones- which paved the way for the much later space outposts such as the Mir and International Space Station.
Pontifract space station
No, the Salut 1 was not the first space station. The first space station was the Soviet space station Salyut 1, which was launched in 1971.
what International Space Station is the first fully functioning space station to orbit the earth.
what International Space Station is the first fully functioning space station to orbit the earth.
The first "space station" was "Skylab".
Salyut program of the U.S.S.R was the first space station. Skylab was the United States first space station. Then there was MIR from U.S.S.R. Now there is the international Space Station.
the first space station built was the sky lab in 1973.
The first manned space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in April 1971.
Skylab, which was a response to Salyut 1( a Soviet space station) was the first US space station, launched in the May of 1973
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.
Depending if you mean any air flight of flight to space. First Space Shuttle was Columbia First Successful flight was over the English Channel.
The Soviet Union had the first space station called Salyut 1, which was launched in 1971. It marked the beginning of long-duration human presence in space.