American Crew of Apollo-Soyuz Mission

American Crew of Apollo-Soyuz Mission

Apollo-Soyuz Mission Crew

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Apollo Project (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Apollo Soyuz Test Project

Slayton, Deke, 1924-1993

Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993

Stafford, Thomas P.

Stafford, Tom

Brand, Vance

Astronauts--United States

The American crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was composed of, from left to right, Astronaut Deke Slayton (1924-1993), first-time Astronaut Vance DeVoe Brand as Command Module Pilot, and veteran Astronaut Thomas "Tom" Patten Stafford as Commander. Brand was the only member of the original Mercury 7 never to fly previously. Slayton had been grounded because of an irregular heart beat since Project Mercury and was National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Director of Flight Crew Operations, but was given clearance for this flight. These three astronauts became the first crew to dock with another nation's spacecraft, the the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' (USSR) Soyuz 19, thus establishing a precedent for international cooperation in space. This image was autographed for Dr. Cal Fowler (1929-2013), who had pressed the button to ignite the engines of three Mercury-Atlas missions.

Original color photographic print: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.

ca. 1975

Fowler, Calvin "Cal" D.

Digital reproduction of original color photographic print.

Dr. Calvin Fowler Collection, Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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

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Originally owned by Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.

Copyright to this resource is held by Dr. Calvin D. Fowler and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Apollo-Soyuz Test Project." National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo-soyuz/index.html.

"Biographical Data: DEKE SLAYTON (MR.)." Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/slayton.html.

1 color photographic print