The American Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) crewmen search the skies for the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in this humorous artwork by Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov.
Astronauts Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton and Thomas P. Stafford (left to right) sit astride the Apollo spacecraft and Docking Module ready to lasso Soyuz.
This is a 1975 artist’s concept illustrating a cutaway view of the docked Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit.
This scene depicts the moment the two international crews meet in space for the first time. Two of the three American crewmen are in the Docking Module. The two Soviet crewmen are in the Soyuz spacecraft’s Orbital Module. The two crew commanders are shaking hands through the hatchway. The third American crewman is in the Apollo Command Module.
Painting by Davis Meltzer.
This artist painting depicts the first international docking in space.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft, to open the way for international space rescue and future joint manned flights.
This was the last US manned space flight before the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981.
Image Credit: NASA
This artist concept depicts the Apollo Command Module oriented in a blunt end forward attitude during its fiery reentry through Earth’s atmosphere.
Image Credit: NASA
This September 1967 photograph shows workmen removing a mockup of the Saturn V S-IVB stage that housed the Skylab Orbital Workshop (OWS) from the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), building 4755.
The mockup was shipped to McDornell Douglas in Huntington, California for design modifications. NASA used the mockup as an engineering design tool to plan structures, equipment, and experiments for Skylab, an orbiting space laboratory. The MSFC had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments, including the OWS.
This line drawing illustrates a cutaway view of the Apollo 14 Command/Service Modules, showing the engineering changes in the CSM which were recommended by the Apollo 13 Review Board.
The major changes to the Apollo 14 CSM include adding a third cryogenic oxygen tank installed in an empty bay (in Sector one) of the Service Module (SM), addition of the auxiliary battery in the SM as a backup in case of fuel cell failure, and removal of destratification fans in the cryogenic oxygen tanks and removal of thermostat switches from the oxygen tank heater circuits. Also a provision for stowage of an emergency five gallon supply of drinking water was added to the Command Module (CM).
FAST FACTS: The fuel cells in the Apollo service module produced 50 to 60 gallons of water during the course of a mission.
The Apollo spacecraft carried three hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells in the service module. Each unit contains 31 individual fuel cells connected in series and operates at 27 to 31 volts. Normal power output is 563 to 1420 watts, with a maximum of 2300 watts. Primary construction materials are titanium, stainless steel, and nickel.
This artist’s concept depicts mankind’s first walk on another celestial body. Here, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, is making his first step onto the surface of the moon. In the background is the Earth, some 240,000 miles away.
Space Shuttle Enterprise sits on display next to America’s Moon rocket, the Saturn V.
