SPACE: APOLLO/SOYUZ SPACE FLIGHT 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Video from the channel AP Archive about Apollo–Soyuz, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:30. Language: English. Video type: News.
AP news piece from July 2000 marking the 25th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz flight, edited together with 1975 footage and its original narration. It covers Apollo's insertion into orbit, the extraction of the docking module from the second stage within the first three hours of flight, and the roughly 40 hours of manoeuvres to reach Soyuz.
The narration recalls that the two crews had spent three years sharing cultures and customs. It shows the capture during docking, the reunion inside the module and the exchange of flags between the commanders, who also signed docking certificates for the International Aeronautical Federation, responsible for validating aeronautical and space records.
The piece ends with Apollo's splashdown in the Pacific, west of Hawaii, presented as the end of an era.