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Space Rocket History #450 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Round 3 with the Soviets
Finally Kraft and Gilruth told the Soviets that if they were unwilling to agree to the telephone conversations then the NASA delegation might as well...
Space Rocket History #449 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Apollo-Salyut Test Mission Planning
The spacecraft designers led by Caldwell Johnson faced a demanding task. Director Gilruth urged them to accelerate the development of the docking adapter...
Space Rocket History #448 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Soyuz/Skylab & Apollo/Salyut
Two options were presented: Apollo docking with Salyut/Soyuz or Soyuz with Skylab/Apollo. Caldwell Johnson was taken aback by the Soviets’ eagerness...
Space Rocket History #447 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Creating a Partnership
On January 20th, 1971 in private negotiation, Low and Frutkin met with Keldysh and Feoktistov to discuss rendezvous and docking. NASA proposed developing...
Space Rocket History #446 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Tell Us All Your Secrets
A critical problem emerged during the separation and ignition of the third stage approximately five minutes into the flight.
A failure in the...
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