ASTP Saturn 1B Rocket Launch

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Southwestern Oklahoma State University
NASA

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Creation Date

7-15-1975

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For release: July 15, 1975

Photo No. 75-H-774
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Saturn 1B launch vehicle thundered away from KSC’s Launch Complex 39B at 3:50 p.m. today. Aboard the Apollo Command Module were ASTP astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Donald Slayton. The astronauts will rendezvous and dock with a Soyuz spacecraft, launched this morning from the Baykonur launch facility in the Soviet Union, carrying Soviet cosmonauts Aleksey A. Leonov and Valeriy Kubasov. The ASTP launches mark the first time that manned spacecraft of two nations have met in space for joint engineering and scientific investigations.