Apollo Command/Service Module Launch for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Apollo Command/Service Module Launch for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Apollo CSM Launch for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Merritt Island (Fla.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Apollo Project (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Apollo Soyuz Test Project

The Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) launching from Saturn IB for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). On the final Apollo flight, a Saturn IB lifted the spacecraft aloft from Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Merritt Island, Florida. This spacecraft eventually docked to a Soyuz 19 spacecraft from July 15-17, 1975, as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. ASTP was an experiment in cooperation and mating of different technologies from both the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Soyuz 19 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near present-day Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The Soviet spacecraft was in orbit for five days. This successful mission led to cooperation on other projects including the International Space Station (ISS).

Original color photographic print, July 15, 1975: Leonard Pugh Collection.

1975-07-15

Digital reproduction of original color photographic print, July 15, 1975.

Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Launch Pad 39B, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida

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Copyright to this resource is held by Leonard Pugh and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Saturn IB." Historic Spacecraft. Accessed June 26, 2015. http://historicspacecraft.com/Rockets_Saturn.html#Saturn_IB.

1 color photographic print