Vladimir Chelomei at the OKB-52 design bureau promoted Almaz as a response to the US Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) project. MOL had been widely publicized in the US press in the early 1960s, which … See more

Following cancellation of the program, the Almaz station was reconfigured as an uncrewed heavy radar-carrying reconnaissance satellite. … See more

• Soviet Union portal
• Spaceflight portal
• TKS, the resupply craft developed for Almaz and Salyut
• Bank of the Universe, edited by Boltenko A. C., Kiev, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix", See more

Three Almaz OPS space stations were flown from 1973 to 1976 in the Salyut programme: Salyut 2 (OPS-1), Salyut 3 (OPS-2) and See more

The heritage of the Almaz space station program continues until today, and can even be found today in the International Space Station and in the Tianhe core module of the Tiangong space station.
DOS space station cores
The DOS (Durable … See more

• The Almaz Program, RussianSpaceWeb.com
• Almaz, Encyclopedia Astronautica
• The Almaz Space Station Program, Sven Grahn
• Mir Hardware Heritage (NASA Reference Publication 1357), … See more