In an unpredictable era that has seen the Cold War rekindled, it's worth remembering a remarkable event that took place 50 years ago when the first crewed international space mission, carried out ...

Astronauts and cosmonauts docked the last Apollo spacecraft with the Soviet vessel Soyuz, and the crews visited each other's craft and shared meals. At ground control centers in Moscow and Houston ...

During the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight in 1975, Leonov drew portraits of his Apollo astronaut counterparts. Voskhod 2 – the first spacewalk: The noted and sad irony that the first person to ...

In April, North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War. Five astronauts and cosmonauts participated in the July 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international joint human ...

Apollo 10 successfully launched from LC-39B ... of and built following the Soviet Union’s fatal in-flight accident on Soyuz 1, which Soviet officials have attributed to melting snow on the ...

I can say with complete confidence that if [chief designer for spacecraft] Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were alive, we would have flown around the moon six months ahead of Apollo 8." Soyuz design ...

Produced by NASA contractor Rockwell International this circa 1978 film was made shortly before the successful ApolloSoyuz space mission It is followed by a second film SPACESHIP EARTH showing ...

Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions were trained at the planetarium. The first astronaut to train at Morehead Planetarium was Neil Armstrong himself.