1975: Apollo-Soyuz (NASA/USSR)

Taking place between 15-24 July 1975, Apollo-Soyuz was the first international manned spaceflight. It was designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft, to open the way for international space rescue as well as future joint manned flights.

The Soyuz was launched just over seven hours prior to the launch of the Apollo CSM. Apollo then maneuvered to rendezvous and docking 52 hours after the Soyuz launch. The Apollo and Soyuz crews conducted a variety of experiments
over a two-day period. After separation, Apollo remained in space an additional 06 days. Soyuz returned to Earth approximately 43 hours after separation.

This home movie made by Florida local Kerry Decker is intercut with official mission footage.

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[eggaweb]

Anyone who says the moon landings are fake are IDIOTS. You are basically calling the million people involved liars.

[cryptor13]

That 'wire' is actually a communications antenna for them to communicate with each other and to the LEM to Houston.

The same scenery has been debunked because the guy who made up that video crap for the hoax has been caught using two videos from the same exploration spot but subsituting audio. He's been caught doing that and his videos were proved faked.

Why would the govt be so stupid to use the same set?

We WERE the first to the Moon and still are.

[pleonic]

This is great! Gives a much more realistic impression, with the intercut home movies, of what it was like seeing this in 1975 than a professional documentary would.

[kissmygrittsyall]

@eggaweb

Don't worry though, the tin foil brigade will find a way.

[eggaweb]

Good point @ROCKSOLID19 about the Russians and @MrSrgj. The Russian space agency and NASA had tremendous respect for each other. I'm sure that the co-operation between the U.S. and Russia helped end the cold war. When it comes to landing on Mars, a joint effort will be required with the U.S. and Russia at the forefront.

[ROCKSOLID19]

@eggaweb I am sick and fed up of pathetic conspiracy theories and the morons going around saying that it never happened, in which they is scientific and photographic evidence to prove the landings. The Russians know that America landed sucessfully on the moon, they never denied it.

[MrSrgj]

Soviet Union to monitor the movements of American astronauts.

Soviet scientists recorded landing Americans on the moon.

Federal Space Agency believes that the American astronauts were on the moon.

[GGE47]

I was there to see this launch.I didn't get a pass so I watched it from 12 miles out.I saw the Russians launch that morning on tv in a motel near Disney World.There was 71/2 hours between the two launches,plenty of time to drive down to the Cape and see the Americans launch.I was so happy for Deke Slayton who the only one of the original 7 to not go into space because of heart murmurs.He was scheduled to go up after John Glenn,but was grounded.There was another Soyuz on the Salyute SpaceStation

[nickyp28]

@cryptor13 Hopefully full utiliasation of the ISS till 2020, Hopefully an Earth-Moon L2 Fuel Depot, testing of Inflatable modules, ESA build the ARV which leads to a crewed version, Russia build the NPK spacecraft and Angara rocket, NASA get their act together and build some Orions and a HLV to launch them. China are putting Tiangong up next year and plan more manned Shenzhou missions. We will hopefully see Chinese and Russian/Euro Manned Moon missions, climaxing in a human mars mission.

[nickyp28]

@harooni22 The Americans were the first to Rendevouz and Dock with two spacecraft (Gemini Programme), the first to orbit the Moon with men (Apollo 8), the first to do it AGAIN (Apollo 10) and the first to land on the Moon (Apollo 11).. The Soviets did have a rocket to go to the Moon, it was called the N1, they had the Soyuz LOK and the LK Lander, they had all the things they needed to land on the Moon, but their N1 rocket kept exploding after test launches. it never succesfully launched.

[nickyp28]

@dcb1138 Spaceflight isn't all about flags and footprints, I believe this was just as important as any moon landing, it proved that humans were smart enough to realise that Human Spaceflight was a common goal for all humaity, here, two Cold War enemies with two symbols of the Space race, the Soyuz and Apollo meet in orbit to cooperate and start a partnership that would help in future endeavours. Without this, no Shuttle-Mir and ultimately no ISS.

[nickyp28]

@SarK0Y The race to the moon, the international competition, was won by the USA. After that, the second era of human spaceflight was opened on the 17th of July 1975 when the Soviet Soyuz and the American Apollo met in orbit, since then we have been in the second era, the International preperation for a manned mission that goes beyond the Moon. There may be no definite plans, but any mission to mars will not be a domestic endeavour, but an international one.