Apollo Soyuz Test Project Prime Crewmen

Apollo Soyuz Test Project Prime Crewmen

Apollo Soyuz Test Project Prime Crewmen

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Apollo Project (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Apollo Soyuz Test Project

Slayton, Deke, 1924-1993

Stafford, Thomas P.

Brand, Vance

Kubasov, V. N. (Valeriĭ Nikolaevich)

The American and Soviet crews of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). The Apollo crew consisted of Docking Module Pilot Deke Slayton (1924-1993) (1924-1993), Mission Commander Thomas Stafford (1930-), and Command/Service Module Pilot Vance de. Brand. The Soyuz crew consisted of Commander Alexey Leonov (1934-), Flight Engineer Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (1935-2014). Both spacecraft launched on July 15, 1975, within hours of each other, with the first being the Soyuz 19 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and the Apollo from Launch Pad 39B at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Merritt Island, Florida. The two spacecraft docked on July 17 and undocked on July 19, with crews conducting joint science experiments. They also spent time giving tours of each other's spacecraft to television audiences and formal and informal gift exchanges. Afterward, the undocking the Soyuz spent an additional day carrying out experiments and landed on July 21. The Apollo crew also stayed in orbit and conducted space science and Earth observation landing in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.

Original color photographic print: Leonard Pugh Collection.

ca. 1975

Digital reproduction of original color photographic print.

Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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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

"THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO-SOYUZ." National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Accessed June 26, 2015. http://history.nasa.gov/apollo/apsoyhist.html.

"The Apollo-Soyuz Mission." National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Accessed June 26, 2015. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo-soyuz/astp_mission.html.