Astronauts Letter to the Apollo Soyuz Team, Mission Sticker, Media Flight Plan

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Astronauts Letter to the Apollo Soyuz Team, Mission Sticker, Media Flight Plan
Astronauts Letter to the Kennedy Space Center Apollo Soyuz Team
dated June 16, 1975 includes the signatures of Crewmembers Thomas Stafford, Donald (Deke) Slayton, and Vance Brand.
Vintage 3 9/16th inches Mission Sticker
Original Media card, with Flight Plan on the Reverse
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Apollo–Soyuz was the first manned 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
module
docked
with a Soviet Union
Soyuz
capsule. The project, and its memorable handshake in space, was a symbol of
détente
between the two superpowers. It is generally considered to mark the end of the
Space Race
, which had begun in 1957 with the launch of
Sputnik 1
.
The mission was officially known as the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP;
Russian
: Экспериментальный полёт «Аполлон» – «Союз» (ЭПАС),
romanized
: Eksperimentalniy polyot Apollon–Soyuz (EPAS),
lit.
'Experimental flight Apollo–Soyuz', and commonly referred to in the
Soviet Union
as Soyuz–Apollo; the Soviets officially designated the mission as Soyuz 19). In contrast, the American vehicle was unnumbered, as it was left over from the
canceled Apollo missions
; it was the last Apollo module to fly.
The three United States and two Soviet Union astronauts 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
.
Apollo–Soyuz was the last manned United States spaceflight for nearly six years until
the first launch
of the
Space Shuttle
on 12 April 1981, and the last manned United States spaceflight in a
space capsule
until
Crew Dragon Demo-2
in May 2020.