Description: The two prime crews of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) sit atop ASTP mock-ups at JSC to symbolize their historic docking in Earth orbit mission schedules for summer ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WEATHERFORD, Okla. (KFOR) – When astronaut ...

On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time period, this wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened approximately 220 kilometers (136 ...

(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. This high-definition thermal test unit for the ultraviolet spectrometer represents the object that flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975. The spectrometer was part ...

Click to open image viewer. This medal commemorates the first international manned spaceflight mission. In July 1975, two manned spacecraft were launched into Earth orbit--one from Kazakhstan, the ...