ASTP Stafford Suits Up

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Southwestern Oklahoma State University
NASA

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Creation Date

1-14-1975

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January 14, 1975

Photo No. 75-H-43

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – ASTP Commander Thomas Stafford is suited for a test of the Apollo spacecraft that will carry Stafford, Donald Slayton and Vance Brand into Earth orbit to rendezvous and dock with a manned Soyuz spacecraft in the first international manned space mission, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Stafford, Slayton, and Brand entered the spacecraft in a KSC altitude chamber for tests of the spacecraft systems at simulated altitudes up to 200,000 feet at noon today. The ASTP launch is scheduled at 3:50 p.m. July 15.