Fact Sheet. 1974. — 46 p. The Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is discussed. The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to develop compatible rendezvous and docking systems which will provide a basis for docking and rescue on future spacecraft of both nations. The ASTP mission will include testing the rendezvous system in orbit, verifying techniques for transfer of...
Houston: NASA, 1975. — 294 p. The Apollo Soyuz mission was the first manned space flight to be conducted jointly by two nations - the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The primary purpose of the mission was to test systems for rendezvous and docking of manned spacecraft that would be suitable for use as a standard international system, and to...
Houston: NASA, 1975. — 23 p. This report is based on an evaluation of preltminary data. and the stated values are subject to change in the final mission evaluation report. Elapsed times are referenced to the time of Soyuz lift-off. 12:20:00 G.m.t., July 15. 1975. References to mission days are based upon each day ending at 24:00 G.m.t. The Apollo Soyuz mission was the first...
NASA, 1974. — 1 p. Artist's drawings and call-outs depict phases of the joint US - USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), an Earth orbital mission which will feature rendezvous and docking of the respective spacecraft of the two nations. Рисунки и условные обозначения художника изображают этапы совместного американо-советского испытательного проекта "Союз - Аполлон" (ASTP) -...
NASA: 1975. — 64 p. In order to establish realistic deviation limits for the ASTP (SA-210) Launch Vehicle Operational Flight Trajectory, a dispersion analysis was conducted. The nominal trajectory prescribed for this analysis is the ASTP (SA-210) Launch Vehicle 500 Pound Launch Window Opening OT. The error sources considered are those associated with predictions of vehicle...
Houston: NASA, 1974. — 1 p. Dawn breaks behind the ASTP Saturn IB launch vehicle during the Countdown Demonstration Test. The Mobile Service Structure was moved away from the vehicle for the test, which is a step-by-step dress rehearsal for the launch culminating in a simulated T-zero and launch. During the test, the stages of the Saturn IB rocket are fueled as they will be on...
Houston: NASA, 1974. — 67 p. A simulated lightning test was conducted on the backup spacecraft for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project mission (CSM-119) to determine the susceptibility of the Apollo spacecraft to damage from the indirect effects of lightning. It is demonstrated that induced lightning effects from low-level injected currents can be scaled linearly to those which are...
Washington: NASA, 1979. — 692 p. International cooperation was the keynote of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. During the 3 years after the project was officially initiated by a U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement on May 24,1972, the great effort in coordination, communication, and integration culminated in the highly successful flight from July 15 to 24,1975. The 9-day flight marked the...
Houston: NASA, 1976. — 22 p. The Crystal Growth Experiment assessed a novel process for growing single c rystals of insoluble substances by allowing two or more reactant solutions to diffuse toward each other through a region of pure solvent in zero gravity. The experiment was entirely successful and yielded crystals of about the expected size, quality, and number.
Washington: NASA, 1978. — 555 p. Correspondance, interviews, official documents, and other published materials were used to trace the evolution of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project from the initial proposal for international cooperation in space use and exploration until the successful completion of the joint Soviet-American mission. Conceptual drawings of proposed docking modules...
Washington: NASA, 1976. — 529 p. This document summarizes the experimental concepts and preliminary analyses (as of December 1975) for each of the 28 scientific experiments conducted during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project from July 15 to 24, 1975. The scientific topics are X- ray and extreme ultraviolet astronomy, solar astronomy, gamma-ray detectors, Earth studies (including the...
NASA, 1975. — 84 p. The preparation of the analytical approach and of the related software used in the inversion of the differential and rotating Doppler data obtained from the ionospheric experiment of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is discussed. These data were collected in space-to-space paths (between the ASTP Docking Module (DM) and the Apollo Command Service Module...
NASA, 1978. — 85 p. A computer simulation of the ionospheric experiment of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was performed. ASTP is the first example of USA/USSR cooperation in space and is scheduled for summer 1975. The experiment consists of performing dual-frequency Doppler measurements (at 162 and 324 MHz) between the Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) and the ASTP...
Translation of "Eksperimental'nyy polet 'Apollot-'Soyuz'," Zemlya i vselennaya, No. 2, March-April 1974. — pp. 13-17 Nearly 2 years ago the USSR and the United States reached /13" agreements on cooperation in research and the use of space for peaceful purposes. One of the most important tasks of this cooperation is to prepare for the joint flight of the Soyuz and Apollo...
Houston: NASA, 2010. — 30 p. The U. S., Russia, and, China have each addressed the question of human-rating spacecraft. NASA’s operational experience with human-rating primarily resides with Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station. NASA’s latest developmental experience includes Constellation, X38, X33, and the Orbital Space Plane. If domestic...
Houston: NASA, 1977. — 31 p. The electrophoresis of six columns was accomplished on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). After separation, these columns were frozen in orbit and were returned for ground-based analyses. One major goal of the MA-011 experiment was the assessment of the separation achieved in orbit by slicing these frozen columns. The slicing of the frozen...
Washington: NASA, 1977. — 67 p. This is the first in a series of nine booklets that discuss the Apollo-Soyuz mission and experiments. This set is designed as a curriculum supplement for teachers, supervisors, curriculum specialists, textbook writers, and the general public. These booklets provide sources of ideas, examples of the scientific method, references to standard...
Washington: NASA, 1977. — 70 p. This booklet is the second in a series of nine that describe the Apollo-Soyuz mission and experiments. This set is designed as a curriculum supplement for high school and college teachers, supervisors, curriculum specialists, textbook writers, and the general public. These booklets provide sources of ideas, examples of the scientific method,...
Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977. — 46 p. Prepared from Investigators' Reports of Experimental Results and With the Help of Advising Teachers. After 4 years of preparation by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were launched on July 15, 1975. Two days...
Houston: NASA, 1981. — 30 p. The ASTP Doppler data were recalibrated, analyzed and related to geophysical ihenomena and found consistent. Spectra were computed for data intervals covering each hemisphere. As many as 14 such intervals were analyzed. Wave structure is seen" in much of the data. The spectra for all those intervals are very similar in a number of respects. They all...
Houston: NASA, 1974. — 137 p. The results are presented of analysis and simulation testing of both the Skylark 1 reaction control system digital autopilot (RCS DAP) and the thrust vector control (TVC) autopilot for use during the undocked portions of the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project Mission. The RCS DAP testing was performed using the Skylab Functional Simulator (SLFS), a digital...
Vonbun F.O., Kahn W.D., Bryan J.W., Schmid P.E., Welds, W.T., Conrad T.D. — Greenbelt: Goddard Space Flight Center, 1975. — 16 p. The Goddard Apollo-Soyuz Geodynamics Experiment was performed to demonstrate the feasibility of , racMng and recovering high frequency components of the earle's gravity field by utilizing a synchronous orbiting c-racking station such as ATS-6. It was...
Translation of "'Soyuz' i 'Apollon' Korabli" Nauka i Zhizn' No. 3 March 1975. — Redwood City: Leo Kanner Associates, 1977. — 24 p. The Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft as well as the docking module are extensively described by Correspondent I. Yudin. The exterior structure and interior design of the Soyuz spacecraft are described section by section. The Apollo and the docking module...
М.: Политиздат, 1976. — 271 с. с ил. Эта книга о том, как проходили подготовка и осуществление совместного полета кораблей «Союз» и «Аполлон». Авторы ее — те, кто совместно с американскими специалистами готовил этот уникальный международный эксперимент. Книга рассчитана на массового читателя. Введение A. А. Нестеренко, Б. П. Артемов. Человек в космическом полете К. Д. Бушуев....
М.: Знание, 1976. — 46 с. — (Космонавтика, астрономия). Обложка А. Н. Савелова. 1975 год ознаменовался выдающимся достижением в области космонавтики - экспериментальным полетом "Аполлон"-"Союз" (ЭПАС). За прошедший после этого события год были подробно проанализированы результаты этого полета, подведены итоги деятельности рабочих групп, участвующих в разработке технического...
М.: Знание, 1976. — 46 с. — (Космонавтика, астрономия). Обложка А. Н. Савелова. 1975 год ознаменовался выдающимся достижением в области космонавтики - экспериментальным полетом "Аполлон"-"Союз" (ЭПАС). За прошедший после этого события год были подробно проанализированы результаты этого полета, подведены итоги деятельности рабочих групп, участвующих в разработке технического...
М.: ДОСААФ, 1977. — 88 с. В книге в популярной форме рассказывается об основных этапах подготовки и реализации первого международного космического полета с участием пилотируемых кораблей СССР и США. Приводятся сведения о советском и американском космодромах, кораблях и их носителях, биографии членов экипажей. Уделяется внимание политическим аспектам полета, его значению для...
М.: Наука,1978. — 224 с. Основные проблемы навигационного обеспечения совместного полета КК "Союз" и "Аполлон". Вопросы совместимости средств и методов определения и прогнозирования орбит. Описание навигационного плана полёта, методы решения навигационных задач при автономных и совместных тренировках и в реальном полёте
2-е издание, дополненное и переработаное. — М.: Машиностроение, 1976. — 152 с. Советский Союз открыл человечеству путь в космос и добился выдающихся успехов на этом пути. Замечательных результатов в освоении космоса достигли Соединенные Штаты Америки. И вот, две ведущие космические державы впервые объединили свои усилия для проведения очень важного эксперимента на околоземной...
М.: Международные отношения, 1976. — 160 с. Осуществление проекта «Союз— Аполлон», ознаменовавшее собой важный этап в развитии советско-американского сотрудничества в космосе, стало одним из конкретных выражений процесса разрядки международной напряженности, нормализации отношений между СССР и США. В книге рассказывается о международном сотрудничестве в космосе, которое...
М.: Международные отношения, 1976. — 160 с. Осуществление проекта «Союз— Аполлон», ознаменовавшее собой важный этап в развитии советско-американского сотрудничества в космосе, стало одним из конкретных выражений процесса разрядки международной напряженности, нормализации отношений между СССР и США.В книге рассказывается о международном сотрудничестве в космосе, которое...
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