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Cosmonautics. Soyuz - Apollo: the icebreaker of the Cold War. (2015)

Special report on the 40th anniversary of the docking of the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft.

With the light hand of journalists, this historic event and the space program itself were called the "Icebreaker of the Cold War".

The participants of the flight and the specialists who took part in its preparation believe that without the Soyuz-Apollo docking, there would have been neither the Mir-Shuttle program, nor the ISS, nor particularly trusting relations between Russian and American cosmonauts.

Interview: Chief Specialist of RSC Energia Viktor Blagov, Deputy Head of the RSC Energia Scientific Research Center Viktor Pavlov, cosmonaut Alexander Ivanchenkov, instructor of the main crew Vladimir Baranov.

Personnel

Blagov V.D. - Chief Specialist of RSC Energia, designer of spacecraft, coordinator of work on the Soyuz-Apollo, Mir-Shuttle, Mir-NASA, ISS programs.
Ivanchenkov A.S. - Soviet test pilot, cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Leonov A.A. - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
Kubasov V.N. -- Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of the VNR.
T.P. Stafford is an American astronaut, fighter pilot, test pilot, Lieutenant General of the Air Force, honorary citizen of Kaliningrad.
Vladimir Putin is a statesman and politician, President of the Russian Federation, Master of Sports of the USSR in judo and sambo, Honored Coach of the Russian Federation, colonel of state Security in reserve, Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Calendar

07.15.2015