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The use of dogs and other animals on sounding rocket flights in the 1950s (Chapter 1), not to mention Sputnik 2, showed how closely linked early Soviet space science was to plans for manned spaceflight. It is no surprise that dogs and other animals continued to be used to anticipate the reactions of humans to manned spaceflight, for not just the early human flights, but also the later, longer-duration missions. Once the first manned flights began in 1961, the reactions of humans to ever longer manned spaceflight became an important discipline within space science. Not only that, but manned spacecraft opened up new opportunities and platforms for the carrying out of scientific experiments in orbit. The establishment of the first orbiting space station, Salyut, in 1971, dramatically expanded the possibilities of installing scientific equipment on orbit, to be operated directly by cosmonauts. Chapter 6 follows Soviet space science arising from the presence of humans in orbit from the first manned flights through to the International Space Station.

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Harvey, B., Zakutnyaya, O. (2011). Orbiting space stations. In: Russian Space Probes. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8150-9_6

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