The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov. At 3:50 p.m. the Apollo 18 spacecraft ...

A previous artificial eclipse, produced by the US Apollo spacecraft during the Apollo–Soyuz mission back in 1975. Now a new team will create the events at will. See fact box below. A previous ...

In Stafford's final trip to space in 1975, he and two crewmates flew an Apollo spacecraft and rendezvoused with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The event was marked with photos of Stafford and cosmonaut ...

He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, was a test pilot during the early days of the U.S. space program, flew on the first Apollo-Soyuz mission and was head of NASA's ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a Soviet craft 140 miles above the earth. By Richard Goldstein Thomas P.

"We have capture," Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: "Well done, Tom, it was a good show.

helping plant the seed for the US-Russian partnership on the Apollo-Soyuz mission six years later. When Apollo 11 landed the first people on the Moon in July 1969, Borman was a NASA liaison at the ...

the Apollo 10 command module, named "Charlie Brown," will be positioned next to the Soyuz TMA-19M capsule, offering a rare opportunity to see U.S. and Russian crewed spacecraft side by side.

“We have capture,” Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: “Well done, Tom, it was a good sho ...