#Apollo Soyuz Test Project

[gemini-enthusiast]

Soyuz spacecraft viewed from the Apollo command module, ASTP

[lonestarflight]

"The Saturn IB space vehicle for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, with its launch umbilical tower, rides atop a huge crawler-transporter as it moves slowly away from the Vehicle Assembly Building on its 4.24-mile journey to Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center."

Date: March 24, 1975

NASA ID: S75-24007, S75-24009

[richo1915]

[un-ionizetheradlab]

@ink-the-artist This sticker was created by the USSR and the US in celebration of the first joint Soviet-American mission in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project! This was the first time that cosmonauts and astronauts collaborated on a space mission – they met up in orbit in 1975 and shook hands. This spelled the end of the Space Race and the beginning of the détente period/thawing of Cold War hostilities.

American astronaut Deke Slayton and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

Handshake between cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and astronaut Thomas Stafford.

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

[fungustober]

entomologists of tumblr can you confirm?

[butchgimli]

wow i love doing research <3

[firefly6591]

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975): Astronaut Alfred F. Jones embraces cosmonaut Ivan Braginsky in the Soyuz spacecraft.

[rawyld]

That is an amazing artwork

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the splashdown of the Apollo capsule on the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). This event happened on July 24, 1975. The cosmonauts who met with the NASA astronauts landed on July 21, 1975.

This was the last splashdown of an Apollo capsule. Deke Slayton, Tom Stafford, and Vance Brand were the Apollo crew on this mission. ASTP was a great success, until the splashdown. During reentry and splashdown, a poisonous gas, nitrogen tetroxide, filled the spacecraft. The gas came from an accidentally running RCS. After splashdown, the crew stayed in a Honolulu hospital for two weeks, and pilot error was determined to be the cause of the poisonous gas.

ASTP still successfully had the first international handshake in orbit, between the old Space Race enemies, the USA and the USSR.

Source: NASA Johnson’s Flickr and Dan Beaumont Space Museum’s Flickr

[moonwatchuniverse]

March 1, 1924... remembering Donald “Deke” Slayton Would be 100th birthday for USAF pilot/astronaut Donald "Deke Slayton, selected a NASA astronaut in 1959, USAF Captain Donald Slayton became one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. However centrifuge training electrocardiodiagrams pointed out he had a heart condition, so he became chief of the astronaut office, deciding on crew planning for the Gemini and Apollo programs. In March 1972, NASA announced that Slayton had returned to flight status and in this way he became DMP - Docking Module Pilot for the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 1975. Wristwatch-wise, Donald Slayton wore a lot of watches (Accutron, Breitling, Bulova, Omega,...)  and he was the first of the NASA astronauts to be spotted wearing an Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4 in December 1962. By June 1963, three NASA astronauts (Donald Slayton, Walter Schirra & Leroy Cooper) had a personal Speedmaster CK2298. Although bezelless since June 1963, Slayton kept wearing his Speedmaster CK2298 untill June 1965. Note in this 1991 portrait, Donald Slayton wore his Gold "Apollo 11" tribute Omega Speedmaster BA 145.022-69 n° 27 chronograph on yellow Gold bracelet awarded in November 1969. (Photo: Pam Francis portraits)

[commodorez]

Space program mission patches!

Mercury 6 - Friendship 7 Gemini GT-3 - "Molly Brown" Apollo 9 - Gumdrop/Spider Apollo 16 - Orion/Casper Apollo Soyuz Test Project Space Shuttle x2

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

now the real question is. where the fuck does one display a poster-sized 16x20 vintage promotional image of the astronauts from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

[gemini-enthusiast]

Soyuz silhouette through Apollo command module window, ASTP

[lonestarflight]

The crawler-transporter rolling out the last Apollo Saturn for Apollo Soyuz Test Program to LC-39B.

Date: March 24, 1975

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[abdulaziz2023]

الرحلة التجريبية أبولو-سويوز، عام 1975

ومشروع أبولو-سويوز التجريبي (يوليو 1975) (بالإنجليزية: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project)‏ يقوم على الالتحام بين وحدة القيادة لبرنامج أبولو و مركبة سويوز السوفيتية في مدار حول الأرض. هو أول مشروع فضائي مشترك بين الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد السوفيتي، و كان هذا المشروع هو الأخير لبرنامج أبولو وآخر بعثة مأهولة لناسا قبل استخدام مكوك الفضاء في أبريل 1981.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.15 (after 1900)

1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. 1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. 1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps. 1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan. 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". 1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. 1983 – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. 2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. 2009 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module. 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. 2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. 2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. 2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

[katharkness]

Actually, I’ve looked it up on Wikipedia. Apparently the communications blackout was an accident caused by overwork, which resulted in what Carr called “the first sensitivity session in space” and easing the workload. The first allegation that it was a strike/mutiny was in 1976, two and a half years after the event. This claim has been denounced by NASA, astronauts, and space historians.

That’s what I found on Wikipedia. I also found a few sources. Here’s one, a transcript of an interview with Carr. He talks about it on pages 12-46 to 12-50. Real interesting to read exactly what he said.

It’s also worth noting that after Skylab 4, NASA didn’t really send anyone up for years afterwards. There was the single flight of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975, but that was it until the first shuttle in 1981. The Skylab 4 crew weren’t excluded any more than every other astronaut.

I think looking at the real story is important, because it provides both an example of how overwork causes problems, and how management can rectify it. Essentially, after the problem became apparent, NASA did it right.

Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.