Soyuz Spacecraft in Orbit

Creator

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
NASA

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Creation Date

7-15-1975

Description

July 1975

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

ASTP ON-BOARD PHOTO – This scene photographed with a handheld 70mm camera from a rendezvous window of the American Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit shows the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft contrasted against a black-sky background with the Earth’s horizon below. The three major components of the Soyuz are the spherical-shaped Orbital Module, the bell-shaped descent vehicle, and the cylindrical-shaped Instrument Assembly Module. The docking system on the Orbital Module was specially designed to interface with the docking system on the Apollo’s Docking Module. The Docking Module is visible very faintly at the top of the picture. The ASTP astronauts and cosmonauts visited each other’s spacecraft while the Soyuz and Apollo were docked in Earth orbit for two days.