OTD In Space – July 15: Apollo-Soyuz Launch
On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit.
They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously marked the end of the space race. First the Russian cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov lifted off from Kazakhstan. A few hours later, NASA astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in an Apollo command module. Two days later, the spacecraft rendezvoused and docked in orbit, and the two crews greeted each other with what became the first international handshakes to happen in space.
They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously marked the end of the space race. First the Russian cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov lifted off from Kazakhstan. A few hours later, NASA astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in an Apollo command module. Two days later, the spacecraft rendezvoused and docked in orbit, and the two crews greeted each other with what became the first international handshakes to happen in space.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04In 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union
00:08blasted off into orbit. They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
00:12This mission ceremoniously marked the end of the space race.
00:16First, the Russian cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov lifted off from Kazakhstan.
00:20A few hours later, NASA astronauts Thomas Stafford,
00:24Vance Brand, and Donald Slayton lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in an Apollo
00:28Command Module. Two days later, the spacecraft rendezvoused and docked in orbit,
00:32and the two crews greeted each other with what became the first international handshakes to happen
00:36in space. And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:40Music
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