Cleaned up Apollo TV views of the historical Apollo-Soyuz "handshake in space".
Film footage of the moment is shown side-by-side. We then see the crew entering the Soyuz, with footage from the Soyuz TV camera (also cleaned up).
This video mixes part of the normal NASA TV feed with a Russian TV broadcast of the event.

TV footage is of low quality with bad color reproduction. This presentation tries to bring out more natural colors and shadow detail.

Research, editing and color correction by RetroSpace HD.


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Apollo–Soyuz was the first international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as a United States Apollo module docked with a Soviet Union Soyuz capsule. The project, and its memorable handshake in space, was a symbol of détente between the two superpowers. It is generally considered to mark the end of the Space Race, which had begun in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1.

The mission was officially known as the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - Экспериментальный полёт «Аполлон» – «Союз» (ЭПАС), commonly referred to in the Soviet Union as Soyuz–Apollo. The Soviet craft was numbered Soyuz 19. In contrast, the US vehicle was unnumbered, as it was left over from the canceled Apollo missions; it was the last Apollo module to fly.

The Soyuz and Apollo flights launched within seven-and-a-half hours of each other on 15 July, and docked on 17 July 1975. Three hours later, the two mission commanders, Stafford and Leonov, exchanged the first international handshake in space through the open hatch of the Soyuz.

The three United States and two Soviet Union astronauts (Slayton, Brand, Stafford, Leonov and Kubasov) performed both joint and separate scientific experiments, including an arranged eclipse of the Sun by the Apollo module to allow instruments on the Soyuz to take photographs of the solar corona. The pre-flight work provided useful engineering experience for later joint American–Russian space flights, such as the Shuttle–Mir program and the International Space Station.

Apollo–Soyuz was the last crewed United States spaceflight for nearly six years until the first launch of the Space Shuttle in April 1981, and the last crewed US spaceflight in a space capsule until Crew Dragon Demo-2 in May 2020.


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