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The origin of the Soviet’s concern, regarding the potential impact of the Apollo Command Module’s Re
Soyuz 16 served as a comprehensive rehearsal for the Soviet contribution to Apollo-Soyuz Test Projec
The American astronauts acknowledged the necessity of enhancing their Russian language proficiency.
For the first time, the Soviet Union publicly announced the crew assignments for a Soyuz mission bef
According to George Low, the Soviet mission operations control room was quite large – it contained 1
In April of 1972, George Low returned to Washington from Moscow and briefed Henry Kissinger. He conv
In a re-evaluation of the proposed test mission, the Soviets concluded that utilizing the Salyut spa
Finally Kraft and Gilruth told the Soviets that if they were unwilling to agree to the telephone con
The spacecraft designers led by Caldwell Johnson faced a demanding task. Director Gilruth urged them
Two options were presented: Apollo docking with Salyut/Soyuz or Soyuz with Skylab/Apollo. Caldwell J
On January 20th, 1971 in private negotiation, Low and Frutkin met with Keldysh and Feoktistov to dis
A critical problem emerged during the separation and ignition of the third stage approximately five
The crew of Soyuz 17 embarked on a historic 29-day mission, surpassing the previous Soviet mission-d
The Salyut 4 space station, designated DOS-4, marked the second phase of the Soviet Union’s civilian
Initially, the rendezvous with Salyut 3 proceeded smoothly. However, as the Soyuz spacecraft approac
Salyut 3 featured a “self-defense” gun purportedly designed by Alexander Nudelman for station use. S
NASA’s Explorer 50, also known as Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8 or IMP-8, stands as a testame
