Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Stars My Destination: Apollo-Soyuz

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (15-24 July 1975)
Apollo
Thomas Stafford, Commander
Vance Brand, Command Module Pilot
Donald "Deke" Slayton, Docking Module Pilot

Command Module: CSM-111

Soyuz 19
Alexei Leonov, Commander
Valery Kubasov, Flight Engineer

Capsule: Soyuz 7K-TM № 75

The Wayback Machine Tour of Apollo-Soyuz
"The Explorers' Club," № MXCIX: The 50th Anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz, Part I
Space Age Song o' the Day
Space Age Song o' the Day
"The Explorers' Club," № MC: The 50th Anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz, Part II
Space Age Song o' the Day
Space Age Song o' the Day
Space Age Song o' the Day
Space Age Song o' the Day
Space Age Song o' the Day
"The Explorers' Club," № MCI: The 50th Anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz, Part III

Commentary: I ought to have published this back in July, immediately after the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz, just as I did for the Apollo Moon missions in December 2022, hot on the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 17. Instead, I tarried, as I did in recapping the Skylab missions. I regret this tarrying as I regretted that tarrying.

January is scheduled to be a busy month for Space Shuttle anniversaries, but sometime in America's Semiquincentennial year of 2026 seems like a good time to re-recap all fifteen Apollo flights.

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