Sternzeit 15.07.2020 Das Apollo-Soyuz-Projekt. Himmlischer Frieden im Kalten Krieg
Video from the channel Kalenderblatt about Apollo–Soyuz, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:18. Language: German. Video type: Documentary.
Short Deutschlandfunk radio piece, published for the 45th anniversary, recalling the Apollo-Soyuz project as a gesture of cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States in the midst of the Cold War.
On 15 July 1975 a Soyuz took off from Baikonur and an Apollo from Cape Canaveral; two days later they docked in orbit and Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford shook hands. Ten years earlier, Leonov had been the first man to go out into space, and Stafford had come within a few kilometres of the Moon with Apollo 10.
After undocking, the Apollo blocked the solar disk and created an artificial eclipse that allowed the corona to be photographed from the Soyuz. The next joint manoeuvre came twenty years later, with a shuttle visiting the Mir station.