The honest recounts of Apollo-Soyuz astronauts
July 17, 1975: In the silence of the vastness of space, the American spacecraft Apollo joined the orbit of the Soviet Soyuz…
The airlock hatches opened and Commander Thomas Stafford exchanged a warm handshake with his counterpart Alexey Leonov. A challenge that was symbolic, scientific, political, ideological, but first and foremost military.
After six years of tricky collaboration, the Apollo Soyuz Test Project ended a twenty-year struggle for control of space.
By collaborating, the two superpowers wanted at once to defuse the tensions linked to the Cold War and to reaffirm that they were the only ones to have mastered manned space flight.
Documentary: Apollo-Soyuz, The First Handshake in Space
Directed by: Thomas Risch & Laurent Portes
Production: The Prod
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