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When Apollo Intercepted Soyuz

Pictured: Fake vodka labels on tubes of beet soup as the Soviets and Americans toast to a historic meeting in Space. Despite ...
On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time period, this wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened approximately 220 kilometers (136 ...
(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...
The documentary "Soyuz-Apollo. The Force of Gravity" is dedicated to the history of the legendary "handshake in space" – the docking in near-Earth orbit of the Soviet and American spacecraft Soyuz-19 ...
HOUSTON - While much of the U.S. marked the 50th anniversary of the NASA Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 20, a three-man crew blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...
If you watched the original Star Trek series, you’d assume there was no way the Federation would ever work with the Klingons. But eventually the two became great allies despite their cultural ...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, who launched on two docking tests, first for a possible Russian moon landing and then the first joint flight with the United States, has died at the age of 94 ...
DAYTON, Tenn. — The long-heralded clash between science and religion over the origin of man was eliminated from the Scopes anti-evolution trial today when presiding Judge John T. Raulston upheld a ...
GRAND PRIZE: New OMEGA Speedmaster chronograph gentlemen’s watch. Flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions, the Speedmaster was worn by the astronauts and cosmonauts during the ...