Fwd: 39 years since the launch of spacecraft "Soyuz-19" and "Apollo"

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: July 15, 2014 9:31:26 AM CDT
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: 39 years since the launch of spacecraft "Soyuz-19" and "Apollo"

Brings back a lot of memories for me, I was on Working Group 4 which covered Communication and Electrical, we were the first and only Working Group (WG) to go to the Russian launch site and town of Lennix now called Baikonur. We were there for supporting the Russian testing of the Lunar Module Transponder which was mounted in the Soyuz , as it was required for the rendezvous with the Apollo Command and Service Module. We flew in at night from Moscow and returned at night as they didn't want us to be able to see anything from the air. We were monitored the time we were there. R.H. Deitz was the NASA WG-4 Chairman, Bill Speier, and Paul Shack were on the WG also.

 

Gary

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

39 years since the launch of spacecraft "Soyuz-19" and "Apollo"

15.07.2014 15:20

July 15 exactly 39 years ago, began the first in the history of mankind joint space flight representatives from different countries.

Starting a pilot project "Soyuz-Apollo" was laid on October 26-27, 1970, when Moscow hosted the first meeting of Soviet and American experts on compatibility of rendezvous and docking of manned spacecraft.

May 24, 1972 in Moscow, an agreement was signed between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. The agreement provides for the docking of the Soviet spacecraft "Soyuz" and American spacecraft like "Apollo" in open space with mutual transition astronauts.

2-8 December 1974 in accordance with the program of preparation for the Soviet joint space flight experiment was carried modernized "Soyuz-16". During the flight tests were conducted life-support systems (in particular, the collapse in the compartments of the ship up to 520 mm Hg. Tbsp.) Test automation system and the individual nodes of the docking assembly, testing of methods perform some joint scientific experiments and unilateral conduct experiments, the formation of the mounting orbit altitude of 225 km, and others.

July 15, 1975 at 15 hours 20 minutes, with the Baikonur launch pad "Soyuz-19" with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov (commander) and Valery Kubasov (flight engineer) on board. Then, 22 hours and 50 minutes from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral launched "Apollo." The crew included U.S. astronauts Thomas Stafford (commander), Donald Slayton (pilot), Vance Brand (docking module pilot).

The first international docking spacecraft was successful July 17, 1975.

Roscosmos press service

 

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