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Apollo Soyuz

Apollo Launch: July 15, 1975

Landing: July 24, 1975

Soyuz Launch: July 15, 1975

Landing: July 21, 1975

Docking Time: July 17, 1975, at 12:12 p.m. EDT

Undocking Time: July 19, 1975, at 11:26 a.m. EDT

Total Time: 19 hours, 55 minutes

Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton

Cosmonauts: Alexey A. Leonov, Valery N. Kubasov

 

The crews warmly greeted each other after the initial opening of the hatches. The crews took calls from President Ford and Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and exchanged gifts all before closing the hatches for the night to sleep. The next day they gave a tour of the command modules for the T.V. audience on earth, then got busy performing science experiments. They spent time in each others capsules and exchanged final gifts before undocking that night.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: S74-17843

Date: March 1974

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