BR 15. Juli 1975 Apollo-Sojus-Test-Projekt startet
Video from the channel Kalenderblatt about Apollo–Soyuz, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:05. Language: German. Video type: Documentary.
Piece from BR's radio series Kalenderblatt about the start of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, told through the meals that astronauts and cosmonauts shared in orbit.
On 15 July 1975 a Soyuz took off from Baikonur and, seven and a half hours later, an Apollo from Cape Canaveral. The crew consisted of Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton on one side, and Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov on the other. As early as 1973, Leonov and Kubasov had travelled to the United States to prepare for the mission.
Two days after launch the spacecraft docked. After an hour of adjusting the atmospheres came the handshake, the exchange of flags, and the meals — one Russian, one American — broadcast live.