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Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule.
Viking 1 was launched on 20 August 1975 and Viking 2 was launched 9 September 1975. This orbiter/lander mission was to photograph the surface of Mars in 1976. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was a collaboration between the United States and the Soviet Union that saw an end to the space race. The mission was launched on 15 July 1975, with the ...
1975 July 15 USSR USA First multinational human-crewed mission [a] Soyuz 19 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: 1975 October 20 USSR First spacecraft to orbit Venus (the orbiter) First view and clear photograph from and of the surface of another planet (the lander) Venera 9: 1979 September 1 USA First Saturn flyby Pioneer 11
In a season of detente, the two competitors declared an end to the race and literally shook hands on July 17, 1975, with the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, where the two craft docked, and the crews exchanged visits.
24 July 1975: Apollo–Soyuz: During final descent and parachute deployment, the U.S. crew were exposed to 300 μL/L of toxic nitrogen tetroxide (Reaction Control System oxidizer) fumes venting from the spacecraft and reentering a cabin air intake, because a switch was left in the wrong position. 400 μL/L is fatal.
The July 15, 1975 rendezvous of the U.S. Apollo and Soviet Soyuz space modules marks the traditional end of the Space Race. The Space Race was the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union roughly from 1957 to 1975 , involving their efforts to explore space with satellites and to eventually land a human being on the Moon and ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American rivalry with China could stoke a new space race in the years ahead, prominent members of the space community said at a session marking the 50th anniversary of NASA ...
Soyuz 7K-T No.39 was intended to be the second mission to take cosmonauts to the Soviet Salyut 4 space station for a 60-day mission. [5] Both cosmonauts were on their second mission and had flown their first mission together, Soyuz 12, in September 1973 to test a new type of Soyuz spacecraft after the fatal accident of Soyuz 11.