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This artist's concept depicts the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first international docking of the U.S.'s Apollo spacecraft and the U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz spacecraft in space. The objective of the ASTP mission was to provide the basis for a standardized international system for docking of marned spacecraft. The Soyuz spacecraft, with Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov aboard, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Kazakh, Soviet Socialist Republic, at 8:20 a.m. (EDT) on July 15, 1975. The Apollo spacecraft, with Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Donald Slayton aboard, was launched from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 3:50 p.m. (EDT) on July 15, 1975. The Primary objectives of the ASTP were achieved. They performed spacecraft rendezvous, docking and undocking, conducted intervehicular crew transfer, and demonstrated the interaction of U.S. and U.S.S.R. control centers and spacecraft crews. The mission marked the last use of a Saturn launch vehicle. The Marshall Space Flight Center was responsible for development and sustaining engineering of the Saturn IB launch vehicle during the mission.

Over its sixty-year history, primarily classified military The Soviet space program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.

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apollo soyuz test project astp msfc marshall space flight center saturn apollo program high resolution apollo spacecraft soyuz spacecraft spacecraft crews mission spacecraft rendezvous saturn apollo program spacecraft kennedy space center astp mission edt vehicle saturn ib control centers intervehicular crew transfer space primary objectives cosmonauts alexei leonov soviet socialist republic astronauts thomas stafford alexey leonov russian space program cosmonaut soviet space program space flight nasa
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label_outline Explore Soviet Socialist Republic, Spacecraft Rendezvous, Alexey Leonov

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apollo soyuz test project astp msfc marshall space flight center saturn apollo program high resolution apollo spacecraft soyuz spacecraft spacecraft crews mission spacecraft rendezvous saturn apollo program spacecraft kennedy space center astp mission edt vehicle saturn ib control centers intervehicular crew transfer space primary objectives cosmonauts alexei leonov soviet socialist republic astronauts thomas stafford alexey leonov russian space program cosmonaut soviet space program space flight nasa