Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is the first crewed international space mission in history, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. It symbolized the end of the Space Race that started with the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 and reached its peak during Apollo 11 in 1969. ASTP marked the last flight of the Apollo Program, with the US portion sometimes being referred to (unofficially) as Apollo 18. The mission's legacy on peaceful cooperation in space is still felt today aboard the International Space Station since 1998
Apollo-Soyuz, also known as Soyuz-Apollo in the USSR, docked together on July 1975
Apollo 18
Soyuz 19
The two crews of Apollo-Soyuz: (Top) Tom Stafford and Alexei Leonov, (Below) Deke Slayton, Vance Brand and Valery Kubasov
| Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1974-1975) |
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| Mission | Start | End | |||
| Soyuz 19 | 1975-Jul-15 | 1975-Jul-21 | |||
| Apollo 18 | 1975-Jul-24 | ||||
| Soyuz 7K-TM (1974-1975) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mission | Start | End | |
| Cosmos 638 | 1974-Apr-3 | 1974-Apr-13 | |
| Cosmos 672 | 1974-Aug-12 | 1974-Aug-18 | |
| Soyuz 16 | 1974-Dec-2 | 1974-Dec-8 | |
| Crewed test flight/dress rehearsal before ASTP | |||
| Soyuz 19 | 1975-Jul-15 | 1975-Jul-21 | |
| The Soviet part of the ASTP mission | |||
| Soyuz 22 | 1976-Sept-15 | 1976-Sept-23 | |
| Final non-space station crewed mission of the Soyuz spacecraft | |||
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