Eight, seven, six
five, four, three
two engine sequence start one zero launch commit we have a lift off all
engines building up thrust.
to open a crack in the door between east
and west during the cold war
apollo houston i got two messages for you
moscow is go for docking houston is go for docking it's up to you guys have fun
all right sounds good
less than five meters distance
i wasn't thinking so much where how far away down the road it would lead
as i was well we can demonstrate to the world
that two countries with different languages
different units of measurements and certainly vastly
different political systems
could work together for a common goal all right on a show hawk provide you
loot free
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new possibilities are opening up for
fruitful development of scientific cooperation between countries and the
peoples in the interests of of peace and progress of all humanity
it's taken us many years to open this door to useful cooperation in space
between our two countries and i'm confident
that today is not far off when space missions made
possible by this first joint effort
will be more or less commonplace
apollo control 99 hours 29 minutes phase elapsed
this is apollo control at acquisition here we should have
confirmation of undocking and a real-time television picture of
soyuz from apollo as it backs away the apollo soyuz mission looked back at it
in retrospective say it was uh the second time in the whole history of the
soviet union in the united states we were close together
i can see that out of most of all
the kind of rips with the cooling side that is kind of
um
it provided a framework for the international cooperation
and what we do today on the international space station
and the type of working groups we have and how we approach things was all based
on what we worked out from apollo soyuz starting from scratch
that kind of opened the gate to go forward for international cooperation
and exploration