RCEU Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Collection Items

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  "Illustration of the Apollo CSM and Soyuz spacecraft during rendezvous."

  Illustration of the Apollo CSM and Soyuz 19 docked together.
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  Apollo CSM Launch

  Photo of the Apollo CSM launch from Kennedy Space Center, U.S.
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  Soyuz 19 Launch

  photo of the Soyuz 19 launch from Baykonur, U.S.S.R
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  Photo of Stafford, Leonov, and Slayton together after docking

  Thomas Stafford takes a photo of himself, Alexei Leonov, and Deke Slayton putting their heads together.
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  Apollo Craft

  The Apollo craft maneuvers closer to the Soyuz craft to prepare for docking.
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  Soyuz Craft

  The Soyuz craft waits for the Apollo craft to maneuver closer to dock.
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  Apollo Soyuz Test Project information card.

  An information card discussing the ASTP in short but precise detail.
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  USA and USSR Docking Systems for the ASTP

  Photograph of the Androgynous Peripheral Attach System for the Apollo craft and the Soyuz craft.
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  ASTP crew members pose in front of an Apollo-Soyuz mockup during a tour of Kennedy Space Flight Center.

  "American and Soviet crewmen for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project visited KSC today as part of a familiarization tour for the Soviet cosmonauts. During their tour, they inspected a full-scale mockup of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in a docked configuration in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building. From left are Astronauts Vance Brand and Thomas P. Stafford, Cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubesov, and Astronaut Donald K. Slayton. Launch of history's first international manned space station is scheduled for July 15, 1975."
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  "Handshake in Space" (Apollo-Soyuz: U.S. and Soviet rendezvous in space)

  A photo of Thomas P. Stafford and Alexei Leonov shaking hands in space after a successful docking between the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts.
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  "ASTP Prime Crew-USSR."

  This illustration is an excerpt from the "Apollo/Soyuz Mission Presentation" given by J.L. Crafts in September 1974.
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  "ASTP Prime Crew."

  This illustration is an excerpt from the "Apollo/Soyuz Mission Presentation" given by J.L. Crafts in September 1974.

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