#apollo-soyuz

[ashes2caches]

this is what transgender sex looks like

#196 #rule #196 campfire #r196 #trans #queer #transfem #hornyposting #t4t #apollo-soyuz #space

[humanoidhistory]

July 17, 1975: Americans and Soviets shake hands in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

#space #history #apollo-soyuz #ussr #usa #illustration #otd #on this day #today in history

[oldkitty]

“I am not in the habit of looking back. When I do I am somewhat amazed that the only child of a dentist and a school teacher from a small town in Oklahoma was able to attend the Naval Academy, serve in the Air Force and fly in space four times.

Through it all… I kept my eyes on the sky. I still do and I hope I always will.” Tom Stafford.

We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race (2002) p. 269 by Thomas P. Stafford with Michael Cassutt.

RIP to an Apollo great (1930-2024)

Credit: Ralph Morse for Life Magazine

Credit: NASA S69-30252 (1969)

#tom stafford #nasa #apollo 10 #gemini 6 #apollo-soyuz #apollo #astronauts #gemini 9a

[missionspecialist]

Original painting for the TV Guide cover of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission coverage, July 12-18 1975 by John Berkeley. Interestingly, in the preliminary draft, the positions of the cosmonaut and astronaut were reversed.

#apollo-soyuz #astp #cold war #space #art #illustration

[toaarcan]

One of my favourite spaceflight facts is that, due to some heavy technicalities on what the universally accepted definition of an astronaut is, and the intense secrecy surrounding the Soviet Union at the time, the entire Vostok program, AKA the thing that first took humans into space, technically doesn't count and everyone just agrees to ignore that.

Submitting my claim that Vostok is actually the cutest spacecraft ever, which is an entirely normal statement.

When they sat down and defined what counts as a successful manned flight, part of the requirements included the astronaut(s) landing in the vehicle. But Vostok didn't do that. Instead, the Vostok cosmonauts ejected from the vehicle after re-entry and parachuted to the ground separately. This continued until the later Voskhod missions, where they ripped out the ejector seat so they could fit more guys inside (and on the second one, one guy and an inflatable airlock so one of them could do the first spacewalk), and put in a rollcage so that landing inside the vehicle wouldn't turn them to goo.

But by the time Voskhod 1 blasted off from Baikonur, all of the Mercury flights had already been flown, so this means that, according to the rules, America technically completed the first manned space flights.

Another technicality was added to the list a couple of years back, when the guys that make the rules futzed with said rules in order to deny Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson astronaut status, because fuck 'em. Now, in order to be an astronaut, you have to actually do something on the flight, otherwise you're just a passenger. And many of the Vostok flights were indeed more like passengers than crew. The Vostok spacecraft is pretty much a big satellite with a passenger compartment and a re-entry module, and it's fully automated.

So why didn't these technicalities get called out? The USA and USSR were never shy about trying to embarrass each other, or make each other look foolish on the world stage. One of the biggest reasons why we know the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory is total stupidity is that the USSR congratulated NASA on the successful landing, because if it had been recorded on a soundstage in Area 51, the Soviets would've been the first to call bullshit.

Well, part of it is just that the Americans didn't know about the specifics of the Vostok program at the time. Whereas the American space program was a very public affair with cheering crowds showing up to watch every launch, the Soviets were much, much more clandestine than that. Baikonur is in the middle of the Kazakh desert, and the Soviets were keen to lie about anything that went wrong.

When their attempt at a moon rocket, the N1, endured four successive failures on launch, mostly caused by the Soviets lacking the funding and the facilities to properly test the thing, and instead just had to launch fully built rockets and hope they worked, the Soviets simply scrapped the last two and declared that they'd never intended to go to the Moon and were all about Earth orbit instead.

The N1 was actually more powerful than the Saturn V, but because it never reached operational status and the Soviets preferred to pretend it didn't exist, the Saturn V remained the world's most powerful rocket until Artemis 1 flew last year. A similar situation is happening now, with SpaceX's Superheavy being more powerful than the SLS, but also being basically a giant bomb at the moment.

Most Americans had no idea how Vostok worked, and didn't even know what it looked like. They didn't get to see what a Soviet spacecraft actually looked like up close until the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.

Behold, the setting for the most expensive handshake in history.

By the time the full details came out, the world had known that the Soviets did it first for decades, and challenging that doesn't really do much for anyone besides the people that want to go "Um, ackchully" about everything.

Additionally, the rules weren't even written yet at the time, so there's even less reason to start changing shit up now. Vostok might be technically breaking the rules, but nobody cares, and downplaying the immense technical achievements of Sergei Korolev, Yuri Gagarin, and everyone else that worked on the early Soviet spaceflights on account of a rules quirk that wasn't even written yet is just kinda dumb.

(Random sidenote, Korolev was the chief designer of much of the USSR's early spacecraft, including the R7 rocket that carried both Sputnik and Vostok into space, and still carries some of the Soyuz flights to this day. And, like pretty much every major achievement of the USSR, he wasn't Russian. He was, in fact, Ukrainian.)

#Vostok #Vostok 1 #Yuri Gagarin #Sergei Korolev #Apollo #Soyuz #Apollo-Soyuz #N1 Rocket #R7 Rocket #Voskhod #Space Flight #Space Travel #Space #History

[moonwatchuniverse]

60 years ago… Deke Slayton In November 1963, Donald "Deke" Slayton resigned from his commission in the US Air Force after he was permanently disqualified from flying in space and became a civilian executive for NASA, becoming director of Flight Crew Operations in early 1966. On March 13, 1972, after a medications treatment, NASA announced that Deke Slayton had returned to flight status. In July 1975, Slayton flew as Docking Module Pilot during the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. Photos show that Slayton had been wearing Accutron & Accutron “Astronaut” pilot watches between 1962 and 1973. (Photo: NASA)

#Aviator #Astronaut #Accutron #pilot watch #GMT #MoonwatchUniverse #NASA #military #montres #uhren #spaceflight #tuningfork #Apollo-Soyuz #test pilot #wrist watch #Zulu time #USAF

[desertmarauder]

California Science Center | 5/2/2023

#california science center #nikon z7ii #desertmarauder #apollo-soyuz #astp

[vintagepromotions]

Soviet poster celebrating the Apollo-Soyuz Mission conducted on 15-24 July 1975. Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission that was carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union.

#vintage poster #1970s #soviet union #apollo-soyuz #russian #apollo #soyuz #space mission #space #space exploration

[sparkleplatypuswriter]

What's this? Oh, just my second ever fic, and of course, a Margo/Sergei one. A tiny little one-shot, canon-ish Sergei PoV during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

#margo x sergei #margo madison #sergei nikulov #for all mankind #Apollo-Soyuz #fanfic #I might be as smitten with Margo as Sergei is

[firefly6591]

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975): Astronaut Alfred F. Jones embraces cosmonaut Ivan Braginsky in the Soyuz spacecraft.

#rusame #hetalia #amerus #alfred f jones #ivan braginsky #space race gays #the Apollo Soyuz mission is my all-time favorite space mission I could ramble about it for ages #I had so much fun drawing this #based on a photo of deke slayton and aleksey leonov. it’s very silly look it up #my art

[lonestarflight]

"The Saturn IB space vehicle for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, with its launch umbilical tower, rides atop a huge crawler-transporter as it moves slowly away from the Vehicle Assembly Building on its 4.24-mile journey to Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center."

Date: March 24, 1975

NASA ID: S75-24007, S75-24009

#Apollo–Soyuz #Apollo Soyuz Test Project #ASTP #CSM-111 #Apollo Block II CSM #Docking Module #Saturn IB #SA-210 #Rocket #NASA #Apollo Program #Apollo Applications Program #Vertical Assembly Building #VAB #Kennedy Space Center #KSC #Florida #rollout #March #1975 #my post

[isalabells]

I don't care what people think of me. I know what I did in the past, and why I did it. And I know why I'm doing this now. That's all that matters.

#For All Mankind #forallmankindedit #for all mankind spoilers #flashing cw #Margo Madison #my heart is so SO heavy #the woman who was there for Apollo 11. who made Apollo-Soyuz happen. the one who got them to Mars. who ensured the Mars programme will #continue. scratched off. deemed a (double) traitor. all of her glory erased from history books. #'there is always a cost' and she always ALWAYS paid the price herself. #her job. her science. her rep. her life. her small shot at happiness. #Margo really said 'People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is #that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess deserves to lose' and then sacrificed herself huh

[humanoidhistory]

Robert McCall, 1974.

#robert mccall #apollo soyuz #space #space art #illustration #history #astronomy

[retroscifiart]

Apollo & Soyuz by Davis Meltzer (1975)

#Davis Meltzer #Apollo #soyuz #cutaway

[cosmonautroger]

Apollo-Soyuz Project, 1974

#Apollo-Soyuz Project #1974

[youreorangeyoumoron]

Paine's "60 years of communism will wipe the smile off anyone's face" vs Sergei's smile every time he interacts with Margo

#for all mankind #margo x sergei #think of when they dock their cardboard prototypes #or when they goof around in the apollo soyuz module #or when he's about to kiss her