Salyut 7, Soviet space station, was launched April 19, 1982. It was the last of the Salyut program, which was replaced by Mir. It had six resident crews, the first of which arrived in December 1982.
In February 1985, contact with the space station was lost and began to drift. Soyuz T-13 with Valdimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh arrived in June 1985 to repair the malfunctions.
The crew of Soyuz T-15 was the final crew to visit Salyut 7 and transferred equipment to the new Mir space station.
Salyut 7 underwent an uncontrolled reentry in February 1991, breaking up over the southern Pacific Ocean.
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