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With a final goodbye, the astronauts of Apollo and the cosmonauts of Soyuz ended their historic meeting in space.
The hatches closed on two days of a Soviet-American harmony in space that has escaped the two nations on Earth.
Apollo and Soyuz still are joined together and will remain so overnight. Still one spacecraft in orbit, but their crews will not see each other again in space.
They undock tomorrow and proceed to their separate conclusions of the mission.
We all got a job to do. We've got to work together to do it right. And I think we're all going to be working together to do that.
Cooperation means friendship. Friendship means peace.
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Good evening. This last day of working side by side in space for the crews of Apollo and Soyuz was a busy one.
Americans and Russians shuttling back and forth, conducting medical and scientific experiments, eating one another's meals, participating in ceremonies of detente.
Since the propaganda of detente was an important consideration, television cameras beamed much of the activity to Earth.
U.S. space officials had seen a lot of Soyuz, of course, but when cosmonaut Valerie Kubasoff gave astronaut Vance Brand a guided tour, the world got its first close look at the Soyuz spacecraft, almost as cramped as America's early Mercury space capsule.
Welcome into Soyuz. The suit hatch is used for transfer from the Sand Wickel. There are two folding desks in the orbital...
This desk we used yesterday to sign the joint document to start our joint activities in space.
Tom Stafford, Dick Slayton, Alexei Lyolov and me hid at this desk and had our space talks.
We are using this desk for our space launch too.
Our spacecraft Soyuz has two living compartments. The second living compartment is the descent vehicle.
Valerie and I are down in the descent vehicle. Part of the Soyuz is really the control center and the part that comes down for landing. Valerie is in the right seat, board engineer's seat.
We are going to have to give you a few words, but first I'd like to make sure that we have communications with Valerie now. We lost them a little while ago.
We are in the descent vehicle now. The crew controls and monitors the operation of the spacecraft's main system from the descent vehicle.
There is an instrument board. Here it is. You can see it on your TV screens now. I would like to illustrate the purpose of this panel to you.
The so-called globe instrument shows automatically the point of the Earth our spacecraft is flying over at this moment.
In front of me, there is a nuclear panel. It shows us how the system is operating now.
During the tour, Khabarov also showed the visiting Apollo astronauts some of the things he took with him on his journey into space.
By the way, if you are looking, there is Valerie's family. His wife, Ludmila, and two children, daughter and son.
The youngest is Dmitry. Good-looking family, huh? Roger, we can see them here on the TV.
Khabarov's guided tour of the Soyuz spaceship wound up with a guided tour of his homeland.
With a television camera aimed out a window, the cosmonaut told Brand about the nation passing 140 miles beneath them.
Okay, Bo, I think we're about ready to go here. Looks like we're coming up over the Black Sea.
And right now, Valerie is getting into the nation. We've got a little bit of a giddy in the cabin here.
We're in cable support. He's ready to tell you a little about his homeland here. He's talking about you and a very big country.
Okay, Valerie, please go ahead.
There is nothing more beautiful than our blue planet.
You will enjoy this night of it together with us, and we shall help you explain what flows below these spacecrafts.
The path of the two spaceships during the tour took them over the Central Asia landing area for Monday's touchdown of the Soyuz and over the historic city of Stalingrad.
...place where the Stalingrad city is. It was called Stalingrad before. In winter 1942, 1943, German fascist troops were defeated by the Soviet army here.
350,000 German soldiers on offices were killed and taken prisoner here.
Not far from here begins this area, the biggest part of our country, reaching the natural resources.
Good picture here. We can see the clouds and the mountains pass below. You might tell Valerie we've been enjoying it.
Then the Soyuz crew was given an aerial tour, but they were not as fortunate as the American tourists as clouds obscured their trip up the east coast of the United States.
They began over Florida, sight of the Apollo launch, and then to the Carolinas, sight of another famous launch.
...at the middle of your screen, we see North Carolina. Only 72 years ago, the first airplane flew in this state.
Yesterday, while the world watched the first meeting in space, somebody had to mind the store, and that somebody was Brandt, who stayed at the controls of Apollo while his two crewmates and the Russians swapped ceremonial gifts.
So today, it was Brandt's turn.
...good spacecraft.
This is my first time in orbit, and we have found very good hospitality here aboard the Soyuz.
For you to remember your stay here, I would like to present to you from the Soviet, the Russian people, a medal of the Soyuz and the Apollo.
Now you can be able to see it on your screen.
The same kind of medal was presented yesterday to Stafford and Deke Slayton yesterday.
And today I am presenting this medal to Vance Brandt.
That's wonderful. Thank you very much.
We will return in a minute with more on the meeting in space.
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All together today there were three transfers of crewmen between Apollo and Soyuz.
The busy activity looked like an orbiting version of the Marx Brothers. One writer called it shuttle diplomacy.
Here cosmonaut Leonov returns to Soyuz as astronaut Brandt prepares to head back to Apollo. And it gets a little crowded.
So, F-R-V, you look great.
Ready to open hatch three.
Look great, that's great.
Hatch three is open.
Okay, you might tell it all the mission now, but just having to check the roll index angle that we put on, you know, between the command module and the docking module.
Roger.
In other words, the zero line is just earlier than putting the other index line.
Roger, he copies.
The rendezvous in space began with a symbolic handshake between the commanders of the two spacecraft, Tom Stafford and Alexei Leonov.
It approached its end as they exchanged seeds of evergreens to be planted upon return to Earth and fitted together their mission medallion.
Allow me to present to you on behalf of the United States of America to give your people and your government
a present of the United States, a present to your people.
After Stafford gave Leonov some seeds, Leonov gave Stafford the other half of a commemorative medal that he had received at the beginning of their Apollo-Soyuz program.
Good evening, dear television friends.
It's about 2200 hours in Moscow time.
The terminating final activities are going on on board our two spacecraft.
While they circled the globe, the spacemen held a joint news conference answering questions submitted by reporters at the mission control centers in Houston and Moscow.
The session opened with a statement from Apollo commander Tom Stafford.
The most rewarding today here in space working with the Apollo-Soyuz project.
The success of the mission that both the United States, the Soviet Union and the rest of the world have seen as a result of the determination,
the cooperation and the efforts by the governments of the two countries, by the managers, engineers and all the workers involved.
It's a very rewarding experience.
Yesterday when I first opened the hatch and said hello to Larry and Alexei, I had a couple of thoughts.
However, due to communications we could not talk them directly.
The thoughts were that when we opened this hatch in space, we were opening back on the Earth a new era in the history of man.
We said, Akhrava, you have to look for Kovusha. We Akhrava, you have to look for Kovusha. We Akhrava, you have to look for Kovusha.
How this new era will go depends on the determination, the commitment and the faith of both the peoples of both countries and the world.
I'm sure it will work out in the future for good.
Thank you. The next question to Valery Kubatov. You have children.
What would you like to wish to them from space as well as to all the children of the world?
Of course, we would like to wish happiness to all children so that their future would be a good one,
so that their future would be a peaceful one, so that they would always live with their parents and in happiness,
so that they would never lose their fathers and brothers as occurred during the last war.
I would like to wish to all the children who are now alive, who now live on the Earth, the majority of them are school children, now they're on vacation.
I would like to wish them a good vacation so that they would gather their strength for the upcoming studies in school.
And one more question to Alexei Leonov. Could you transmit to Earth a sketch that would depict the meaning,
the essence of the joint mission in space of your two spacecraft?
Well, it's probably quite difficult to do this very quickly right now, but I could transmit this drawing.
This drawing was made a long time ago. This image. Excellent, thank you.
As far as the question is to say, I have done many drawings here. For example, here's Tom Stafford. Does he look like him? Very much. Very excellent.
Now I'll show you a very complete, a very young Stafford. Here he is, younger. Excellent, exceptional.
And one other person from Texas. This is our friend, X-Layton.
But the portrait of Vince Brand, I just gave it to him and he's not here. So you see, here's our whole cosmic portrait gallery in space.
And I'd like to say that the spacecraft is one thing, but another thing is with whom you're flying.
And this is what I'd like to point out, that I always want to fly in space with friends to whom one trusts and who trust in one and with whom it is not dull to work with.
While the spacemen share the perils of flight through a hostile environment high above the Earth, on the ground, halfway around the world from each other,
the families of the cosmonauts and the astronauts share similar concerns, similar emotions.
Nelson Benton reports from Houston, Steve Young from Moscow.
You know, when right after docking and the odor was detected from the docking module, did that give you any pause at all?
A little concern, but when they mentioned the masks and that they were reluctant to put them on, I thought, oh, it's all right.
After Tom comes down from this, should Tom Stafford fly again?
I said on Apollo 2 he shouldn't, so I'm not going to make any more profound statements about what Tom should do. He'll make a good decision, I'm sure.
For me, more. It's strictly a personal kind of thing.
I know the value of the flight and the things that hopefully it will accomplish in working together,
but again, I think it's hard maybe for other people to realize the feeling that you've actually accomplished what you've worked for for all these years.
And I feel like I've worked for it as hard as Vance, not as hard as he has, but you know, we've been married a long, long time
and we've gone through a lot of things together and I feel like it's as much a triumph for both of us
because he finally accomplished the thing that he had worked so hard for.
Mrs. Kubasov, were you worried during the rendezvous and docking?
Of course I was worried. It's a natural feeling to be anxious about your close ones
who are very, and take in a very responsible and a difficult role.
We watched both the launch and the docking together with Lyudmila in our apartment.
We had wives of other cosmonauts who were with us at the time, cosmonauts, Soviet cosmonauts,
and we watched the TV transmissions with them.
Naturally, every space flight has a certain experimental nature
and it's well known that each flight has a certain amount of risk,
so there's a lot of worry among relatives and close friends, so we were very worried at the time.
But along with this worry and anxiety, we were never without hope and confidence
in the successful conclusion of this flight.
And I think in general, space, as was said earlier, space is only conquered by the brave.
That's the way we feel our husbands, that's the kind of people we think our husbands are.
Four of the five spaceman's wives also have their own careers.
Mrs. Leonov is a teacher and editor, Mrs. Kubasov is a research engineer,
Mrs. Stafford is co-owner of a specialty shop, and Mrs. Brand is a decorator for a home building firm.
The Russian press, for the first time watching and reporting one of their own space adventures as it happened,
has put banner headlines on the Apollo-Soyuz mission,
and TASS reports that a Soviet couple named their newborn twins Apollo and Soyuz.
The parents are Sadymkin and Tarakbhai Sadyvidev.
The cosmonauts will come back home Monday with their Soyuz parachuting to the steppes of Central Asia.
Apollo stays up three days longer before splashing down in the Pacific near Hawaii Thursday afternoon.
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Tomorrow morning, Soyuz and Apollo will undock for a test, then rejoin and finally separate,
eventually to drift slowly out of sight of each other.
The handshake flight, the first joint venture of the United States and the Soviet Union, then will be over.
The basic purpose will have been accomplished, a demonstration of détente with the whole world watching.
Where will it lead? Well, who knows?
But for this one mission in space, the two world powers have shown they can work together,
no matter how great the background of suspicion or how much their political and economic systems remain in conflict on Earth.
The cost has been questioned, $225 million to the United States and about the same for the Soviet Union.
Both nations certainly have problems on Earth demanding their resources.
But if one believes in man's destiny ever to explore the unknown corners of his universe,
to seek answers to questions he's been asking since he first looked up into the heavens,
then even more costly commitments are going to be required.
The flight of Apollo and Soyuz was a first step toward man's abandonment of his earthly competition
in an effort to share the cost of adventures into space.
For the moment, the United States is suspending that effort.
This was the last scheduled flight until the first test four or five years away of the Space Shuttle,
a whole new generation of space vehicles.
The Russians will use those years to build bigger boosters and more sophisticated spacecraft,
closing the gap that now exists between their capabilities and those of the United States.
This flight did not end the space race, but it may have paved the way for more cooperation,
less competition in the future for the benefit of all mankind.
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Apollo Soyuz. A meeting in space.
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Just having to check the roll index angle that we put on here between the command module and the docking module.
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