Tag: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

  • Alexei Leonov, world’s first spacewalker, dies

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Credit: Roscosmos Legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space — an experience that almost killed him — and later the commander of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that docked with a NASA Apollo capsule, symbolizing a historic thaw in the Cold…

  • July 15, 1975: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launched

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    American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The Soviet Soyuz with cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubasov was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome about seven hours before the American Apollo-Saturn 1B with Tom Stafford, Vance Brand…