Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov exit the bus, address journalists and walk up to the Soyuz rocket. Film footage with translated cosmonaut audio was synchronized to the TV broadcast of the event. The TV recording (original here: [ Ссылка ] ) was degraded and suffered from hue shifts that were corrected as best as possible. Some ambient audio from a modern Soyuz launch was used.
The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) (Russian: Экспериментальный полёт «Аполлон» – «Союз» (ЭПАС) conducted in July 1975, was the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight.
The ASPT involved the docking of an Apollo command and service module and the Soviet Soyuz 19 capsule. The Apollo flew with a three-man crew on board: Tom Stafford, Vance Brand, and Deke Slayton.
The mission included both joint and separate scientific experiments, including an engineered eclipse of the Sun by Apollo to allow Soyuz to take photographs of the solar corona. The pre-flight work provided useful engineering experience for future joint US–Russian space flights, such as the Shuttle–Mir Program and the International Space Station. ASTP was the last crewed US space mission until the first Space Shuttle flight in April 1981.
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