It was April 19, 1971. The Soviet Union had just launched the world’s first space station into low Earth orbit, named Salyut-1 [Sal-yoot]. Two months later, on June 6, 1971, the Soyuz 11 [Soy-ooz] would make a trip to the orbiting space station with cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski,[Ghee-ohr-ghee Dough-bro-vole-skee] Vladislav Volkov [Vol-cove], and Viktor Patsayev [Pat-sigh-yev] aboard the spacecraft. The Soyuz 11 launched into space, and the three cosmonauts boarded the Salyut-1 space station on

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On 9/11, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. was the only American not on the planet that fateful day. Over 200 miles above Earth - inside the International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts - Culbertson could see smoke billowing over New York City. Culbertson, who brought his trumpet aboard the ISS, played "Taps" as he captured videos and photos of Ground Zero for NASA. #NationalSpaceDay | National September 11 Memorial & Museum