El programa Apolo-Soyuz: Cooperación en plena Guerra Fría.
Video from the channel Franimagen Cronicas del Pasado about Apollo–Soyuz, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:52. Language: Spanish. Video type: Documentary.
Short explainer piece from the channel Crónicas del Pasado about the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), presented as a moment of cooperation in the midst of the Cold War.
It recalls the context of 1975, with the United States and the Soviet Union at odds and space turned into yet another arena of rivalry. It explains that this was the two countries' first joint space mission and that its goal was to demonstrate that their spacecraft could dock in orbit and work together.
The spacecraft lifted off on 15 July 1975 from Cape Canaveral and Baikonur. Once docked, astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton shook hands in orbit with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov, in an event broadcast live. The piece also highlights the joint experiments and presents the mission as a precursor to the International Space Station.