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Apollo-Soyuz

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APOLLO-SOYUZ

BY:RUBY BOUCHER

Program: Apollo-Soyuz

Start Date: Apollo/Soyuz-July 15, 1975

End Date: Apollo-July 24,1975
Soyuz-July 21, 1975

Objectives:To safely dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Soviet Soyuz spacecrafts

Spacecraft: Apollo Spacecraft and the Soviet Soyuz Spacecraft

​Crew Capsule: Apollo Capsule and Soyuz Capsule

​Rocket: Saturn IB

Purpose: Its purpose was to enable a docking between the dissimilar Soyuz spacecraft and the U.S. Apollos

Name: Thomas P. Stafford
Birthdate: September 17th 1930
​Hometown: Weatherford, OK
​Education: United States Naval Academy(1952), Weatherford High School(1948)
​Experience: American former Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut
​Missions: Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, Gemini 6A

Name: Vance D. Brand
​Birthdate: May 9th 1931
​Hometown: Longmont, CO
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, Longmont High School, University of Colorado Boulder
​Experience: American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut
​Missions: STS-5, STS-35, Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, STS-41-B

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​Name: Donald K. Slayton
Birthdate: March 1st 1924
​Hometown: Sparta, WI
​Education: University of Minnesota
​Experience: American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office
​Missions: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project

Name: Alexey A. Leonov
​Birthdate: May 30th 1934
​Hometown: Listvyanka, Irkutsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
​Education:The Soviet Air Force Academy of Arts in Riga, Pilot prep school in Kremenchug, the Chuguyev Higher Air Force School, Zhukovskiy Air Force Engineering Academy, Candidate of Technical Sciences
​Experience: Retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, Air Force Major General, the 1st human to conduct extra-vehicular activity, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk
​Missions: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, Voskhod 2l

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Name: Valeri N. Kubasov
​Birthdate: January 7th 1935
​Hometown: Vyazniki, Vladimir Oblast, Russia
​Education: Moscow Aviation Institute
​Experience: Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos program
​Missions: Soyuz 36, Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, Soyuz 6

Major Events: The U.S. and Soviet space capsules were not compatible, the first major task was the development of a new docking module
​Mission/Date: Soyuz 19 and July 15,1975
​Astronaut(s) Involved: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton,Alexey A. Leonov, Valeri N. Kubasov
What Happened: Two Cold War-rivals met in space. When their respective spacecraft rendezvoused and docked, a new era of cooperative ventures in space began