Apollo-Soyuz

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Project Summary

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was a reflection of the spirit of "detente" that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1970s. After several years of preparation, which included designing and building a docking module that would allow the docking of the Apollo command module and Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz 19 lifted of from the Baikanour Cosmodrome on the morning of July 15, 1975. It was followed, later the same day, by the last Apollo spacecraft to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It was not until almost exactly 20 years later, in June 1995, that American and Russian spacecraft and astronauts would again meet in space, with the docking of the space shuttle Atlantis (STS-71) to the space station Mir.

Missions Flown

                                 # of Flt.                          
  Date       Spacecraft Name     Crew Days      Mission/Payload     
-------- ----------------------- ---- ----  ------------------------
Manned Flight Details
07/15/75 Soyuz 19 (ASTP)           2     6  Apollo ASTP docking     
07/15/75 Apollo ASTP               3     9  Soyuz 19 docking        


Shuttle-Mir Flights
02/03/95 STS-63 (Discovery)        6     8  Mir rendezvous          
06/27/95 STS-71 (Atlantis/Mir 19)  5+2  10  Mir docking #1          
11/11/95 STS-74 (Atlantis)         5     8  Mir docking #2          
03/22/96 STS-76 (Atlantis/Mir 21)  5+1   9  Mir docking #3          
09/16/96 STS-79 (Atlantis/Mir 22)  6+1  10  Mir docking #4          
01/12/97 STS-81 (Atlantis/Mir 23)  5+1  10  Mir docking #5          
05/15/97 STS-84 (Atlantis/Mir 24)  6+1   9  Mir docking #6          
09/25/97 STS-86 (Atlantis/Mir 24)  6+1  11  Mir docking #7          
01/22/98 STS-89 (Endeavour/Mir 25) 6+1   9  Mir docking #8          
06/02/98 STS-91 (Discovery)        6    10  Mir docking #9

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