Icon "Union - Apollo"

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Icon "Union - Apollo": [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 0.8 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. -
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In the photo: souvenir icon "Union - Apollo". A round shape symbol representing the globe, through the entire field of the circle, an orbit in the form of a tape with the inscription: "Soyuz-Apollo", forming protrusions on both sides of the badge, is drawn. Yellow metal. Red and blue enamel. Stamping. The size is 15x23 mm. Pin fastening. On the reverse side - the brand of the manufacturer: the plant "Victory" (Moscow), the price of 15 kopecks. Location: From a private collection. - Souvenir icon "Soyuz - Apollo" is dedicated to the joint pilot piloted flight of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz-19 and the American spacecraft Apollo. July 15, 1975 at 15.20 Moscow time from the cosmodrome on Baikonur was launched the launch of the Soyuz-19. On its board were Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov. In 7 hours from the Eastern testing ground in Florida at Cape Canaveral started the ship "Apollo" with astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton. The flight program was approved on May 24, 1972 by the Agreement between the USSR and the USA on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. The main objectives of the program: testing of elements of a compatible system of convergence in orbit; testing of the active-passive docking assembly; checking equipment and equipment to ensure the transition of astronauts from the ship to the ship; accumulation of experience in conducting joint flights of spacecrafts of the USSR and the USA. In addition, the program anticipated studying the possibility of controlling the orientation of docked ships, checking inter-ship communications and coordinating the actions of the Soviet and American flight control centers .
I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg). III. Victory, plant (Moscow) .1. "Union" - "Apollo", the space program - Badges. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Open space (collection). 4. Russia and the countries of the world (collection). 5. USSR - Relations - United States of America - 1970s. - Icons. 6. United States of America - Relationships - USSR - 1970s. - Icons. 7. Souvenir badges - the USSR.
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Place of origin: From private collection
Publisher Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина
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