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On April 3, 1973, the Soviet Union launched a small space station called Salyut 2. Discover more space history 👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/1MX9Lj This was the second space station ever launched and the first military space station. The Soviet Union told the rest of the world that Salyut 2 was a civilian space station built for scientific research, but it was secretly intended to be a crewed military reconnaissance station. No crews ever made it to Salyut 2, though. Less than two weeks afte