Apollo–Soyuz Test Project

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The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project was a 1975 joint U.S.–Soviet space mission that conducted the first international crewed spacecraft docking, symbolizing a thaw in Cold War tensions and pioneering cooperative space exploration.

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instanceOf United States–Soviet Union spaceflight
crewed spaceflight mission
docking mission
joint space mission
agreementSigned 1972-05-24
agreementSignedBy Soviet Union
United States
alsoKnownAs ASTP
Apollo–Soyuz
apogee about 229 km
country Soviet Union
United States
crewMember Alexei Leonov
Donald K. Slayton
linked to: Deke Slayton

Thomas P. Stafford
linked to: Thomas Stafford

Valeri Kubasov
Vance D. Brand
crewSize 5
dockingDate 1975-07-17
dockingMechanismStandard Androgynous Peripheral Attach System
firstInternationalDocking true
followedBy Space Shuttle program
inclination about 51.8 degrees
landingDate 1975-07-21
launchDate 1975-07-15
launchSite Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5
linked to: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
legacy paved way for International Space Station cooperation
paved way for Shuttle–Mir Program
missionDuration 9 days
missionType diplomatic mission in space
test flight
notableAs last crewed US spaceflight before Space Shuttle era
last flight of an Apollo spacecraft
objective conduct joint scientific experiments
demonstrate international cooperation in space
test compatible rendezvous and docking systems
operator NASA
Soviet space program
orbit low Earth orbit
perigee about 217 km
politicalContext détente
precededBy Skylab 4
program Apollo program
Soyuz program
linked to: Soyuz spacecraft
spacecraft Apollo CSM-111
Soyuz 19
symbolized beginning of US–Soviet space cooperation
thaw in Cold War tensions
undockingDate 1975-07-19
usedDockingModule Apollo–Soyuz Docking Module

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