BR 15. Juli 1975 Apollo-Sojus-Projekt tritt in Kraft
Video from the channel Kalenderblatt about Apollo–Soyuz, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:05. Language: German. Video type: Documentary.
Radio piece from the BR series Kalenderblatt that reviews the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project from a particular angle: the shared meals in orbit as a symbol of the rapprochement between the two superpowers.
The crews were Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton for the United States, and Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov for the Soviet Union. On 15 July 1975 Soyuz launched from Baikonur and, seven and a half hours later, Apollo launched from Cape Canaveral. Two days later the spacecraft docked and, after equalizing the atmospheres of the two cabins, came the handshake, the messages from the leaders and the exchange of flags.
Already in 1973, Leonov and Kubasov had traveled to the United States to get to know their colleagues and their cuisine. The piece presents Leonov, the first man to carry out a spacewalk, as the most popular member of the mission.