Docking of Apollo & Soyuz: The Historic Space Simulation Adventure.
30In this exciting video, you'll witness a simulation of the historic docking of Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts, which took place on July 17, 1975, marking the first international manned space flight.
The first international partnership in space wasn't the International Space Station. It wasn't even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international human spaceflight. On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft launched carrying a crew of three and docked two days later on July 17, with a Soyuz spacecraft and its crew of two.
Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as a United States Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The project, and its handshake in space, was a symbol of détente between the two superpowers during the Cold War.
The mission was officially known as the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP; Russian: Экспериментальный полёт «Союз» – «Аполлон» (ЭПАС), romanized: Eksperimentalniy polyot Soyuz–Apollon (EPAS), lit. 'Experimental flight Soyuz-Apollo', and commonly referred to in the Soviet Union as Soyuz–Apollo; the Soviets officially designated the mission as Soyuz 19). The unnumbered American vehicle was left over from the canceled Apollo missions, and was the last Apollo module to fly.
The three American astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, and Deke Slayton, and two Soviet cosmonauts, Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov, performed both joint and separate scientific experiments, including an arranged eclipse of the Sun by the Apollo module to allow instruments on the Soyuz to take photographs of the solar corona. The pre-flight work provided useful engineering experience for later joint American–Russian space flights, such as the Shuttle–Mir program and the International Space Station.
Spacecraft used:
Soyuz 7K-TM No.75
Apollo CSM-111
Docking Module
Launch mass:
Soyuz: 6,790 kg (14,970 lb)
Apollo: 14,768 kg (32,558 lb)
Docking Module: 2,012 kg (4,436 lb)
Crew size: Soyuz- 2 & Apollo- 3
Members:
Soyuz: Alexei Leonov & Valeri Kubasov
Apollo: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand & Deke Slayton
Apollo–Soyuz was the last crewed United States spaceflight for nearly six years until the first launch of the Space Shuttle on 12 April 1981, and the last crewed United States spaceflight in a space capsule until Crew Dragon Demo-2 on 30 May 2020.
Using space flight simulator software, I'll present through the intricate process of docking two spacecrafts in orbit, explaining each step along the way. You'll experience the challenges and risks involved in this delicate operation and gain insight into the technological advancements that made this achievement possible.
For more details about the mission checkout the links below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz
https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz/overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7Br9kJBbo
Credits
Rocket (Apollo): @nodlcsfs
Rocket (Soyuz): @PrinceisYT
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