{"id":283960,"date":"2023-01-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-485290"},"modified":"2023-09-25T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:19:12","slug":"50-years-ago-nasa-names-u-s-crew-for-the-apollo-soyuz-test-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-nasa-names-u-s-crew-for-the-apollo-soyuz-test-project\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago: NASA Names U.S. Crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\"><div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\"><div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\"><p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">5 min read<\/p><h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">50 Years Ago: NASA Names U.S. Crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Jan. 30, 1973, NASA formally announced the American crew for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/45-years-ago-soyuz-and-apollo-launch\/\">Apollo-Soyuz Test Project<\/a> (ASTP), the first joint human spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union, planned for July 1975. The prime crew consisted of Commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/stafford_thomas.pdf?emrc=077c78\">Thomas P. Stafford<\/a>, Command Module Pilot (CMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/brand_vance_0.pdf?emrc=e67bc3\">Vance D. Brand<\/a>, and Docking Module Pilot (DMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/slayton_donald.pdf?emrc=f1c825\">Donald K. \u201cDeke\u201d Slayton<\/a>, with the backup crew of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bean_alan.pdf?emrc=dbdf5c?emrc=dbdf5c\">Alan L. Bean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/evans_ronald.pdf?emrc=1524bd?emrc=1524bd\">Ronald E. Evans<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lousma_jack_0.pdf?emrc=24dea4?emrc=24dea4\">Jack R. Lousma<\/a>. In May 1973, the Soviets named their prime crew of Commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=1064\" rel=\"noopener\">Aleksei A. Leonov<\/a> and Flight Engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=1362\" rel=\"noopener\">Valeri N. Kubasov<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=1100\" rel=\"noopener\">Anatoli V. Filipchenko<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=1128\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikolai N. Rukavishnikov<\/a> serving as backups. The American and Soviet crews first trained together at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston in July 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_cooperation_in_space_agreement_signing_moscow_may_24_1972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_1_cooperation_in_space_agreement_signing_moscow_may_24_1972.jpg\" width=\"597\" height=\"330\"><br>\n<em>At the summit meeting in Moscow in May 1972, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, left, and<br>\nSoviet Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin sign the agreement on space cooperation that led<br>\nto the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a decade of lower-level collaborative efforts between the two space powers and two years of detailed discussions on a common docking system, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin signed the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-the-united-states-and-the-soviet-union-sign-a-space-cooperation-agreement\/\">Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes<\/a>\u201d in Moscow in May 1972. That agreement led to the creation of ASTP, in which an American Apollo spacecraft carrying three astronauts would dock in orbit with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts onboard. An androgynous docking system made the docking between the two dissimilar spacecraft possible, and a docking module enabled two days of crew exchanges by serving as an airlock since the Apollo and Soyuz operated at different atmospheric pressures and compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_stafford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_2_stafford_s72-35016.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"285\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_brand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_3_brand_s71-51263.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"285\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_slayton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_4_slayton_s74-15240.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"285\"><br>\n<em>The prime American crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Thomas P. Stafford, left,<br>\nVance D. Brand, and Donald K. \u201cDeke\u201d Slayton.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stafford, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/60-years-ago-nasa-selects-a-second-group-of-astronauts\/\">selected<\/a> as an astronaut in 1962 and a veteran of three space missions, had flown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/55-years-ago-the-spirit-of-76-the-first-rendezvous-in-space\/\">Gemini VI<\/a> in 1965, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/55-years-ago-gemini-ix-and-the-angry-alligator\/\">Gemini IX<\/a> in 1966, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-apollo-10-clears-the-way-for-the-first-moon-landing\/\">Apollo 10<\/a> in 1969, the dress rehearsal flight for the first Moon landing. Brand, selected as an astronaut in 1966, had yet to make his first spaceflight, although he served as a crew member for the week-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-two-critical-apollo-tests-in-houston\/\">Apollo 2TV-1<\/a> vacuum chamber test in June 1968 and as backup CMP for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-nasa-names-apollo-15-crew\/\">Apollo 15<\/a> Moon landing mission and was assigned as the backup commander for the Skylab 3 and 4 missions. Slayton, although selected as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/60-years-ago-nasa-introduces-mercury-7-astronauts\/\">original Mercury 7 astronauts<\/a> in 1959, had not yet made his first spaceflight. In March 1962, a heart condition grounded him two months before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/60-years-ago-scott-carpenter-orbits-the-earth-aboard-aurora-7\/\" data-type=\"URL\">his planned first mission<\/a>, and had only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/60-years-ago-scott-carpenter-orbits-the-earth-aboard-aurora-7\/\">returned to flight status<\/a> in March 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_bean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_5_bean_s69-38859.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"285\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_evans\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_6_evans_s71-51273.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"285\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_lousma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_7_lousma_s71-52262.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"285\"><br>\n<em>The backup American Apollo-Soyuz Test Project astronauts Alan L. Bean,<br>\nleft, Ronald E. Evans, and Jack R. Lousma.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The backup American ASTP crew consisted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bean_alan.pdf?emrc=dbdf5c?emrc=dbdf5c\">Alan L. Bean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/evans_ronald.pdf?emrc=1524bd?emrc=1524bd\">Ronald E. Evans<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lousma_jack_0.pdf?emrc=24dea4?emrc=24dea4\">Jack R. Lousma<\/a>. Bean had served as Lunar Module Pilot during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-three-more-like-before-the-recovery-of-apollo-12\/\">Apollo 12<\/a> mission in November 1969, conducting two lunar surface traverses, and at the time of this selection was preparing to command the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/skylab-3-return-to-skylab\/\">second Skylab crew<\/a> on a two-month mission launching in July 1973. Evans had just returned to Earth in December 1972 after serving as CMP on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-apollo-17-splash-down-ends-the-beginning-of-lunar-exploration\/\">Apollo 17<\/a>, the final Apollo Moon landing mission. Lousma had yet to make a spaceflight but was in training to fly with Bean on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/skylab-3-return-to-skylab\/\">second Skylab mission<\/a>. To serve as support crew members to assist the flight crews in training and test activities, NASA assigned astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/truly_richard.pdf?emrc=cca389\">Richard H. Truly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/overmyer_robert.pdf?emrc=07abc3\">Robert F. Overmyer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/crippen_robert.pdf?emrc=0a1799\">Robert L. Crippen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bobko_karol.pdf?emrc=3d30b7\">Karol J. \u201cBo\u201d Bobko<\/a>. All four had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-nasa-group-7-astronaut-selection\/\">transferred to NASA<\/a> in August 1969 from the U.S. Air Force\u2019s Manned Orbiting Laboratory following that program\u2019s cancelation two months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_8_s74-20823.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"240\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_filipchenko_rukavishnikov\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_9_filipchenko_rukavishnikov.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\"><br>\n<em>Left: The first (prime) Soviet ASTP crew, cosmonauts Aleksei A. Leonov, left, Valeri N. Kubasov.<br>\nRight: The second (backup) Soviet crew, cosmonauts Anatoli V. Filipchencko, left, and<br>\nNikolai N. Rukavishnikov. <strong>Image credit: Courtesy Roscosmos.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Soviets announced their crews for ASTP on May 24, 1973. Selected in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/60-years-ago-soviets-select-their-first-cosmonauts\/\">first cadre of cosmonauts in 1960<\/a>, commander of the first crew Leonov conducted the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/space-station-20th-spacewalking-history\/\">first spacewalk<\/a> during his first flight, Voskhod-2 in March 1965. Kubasov, selected as a cosmonaut-engineer in 1968, completed his first space mission, Soyuz-6 in October 1969, part of the first, and so far only, triple human spaceflight. Filipchenko commanded Soyuz-7, the second flight of that triple mission, while Rukavishnikov flew aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/50-years-ago-launch-of-salyut-the-worlds-first-space-station\/\">Soyuz-10<\/a> in April 1971 and docked with the Salyut space station but a problem with the docking mechanism prevented that crew from occupying the orbiting laboratory. The Soviets assigned four rookie cosmonauts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=172\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov<\/a>, Boris D. Andreyev, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=205\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuri V. Romanenko<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=1106\" rel=\"noopener\">Aleksandr S. Ivanchenkov<\/a>, as backups, breaking with their tradition of not announcing new cosmonauts until they successfully launched. The first joint crew training session between the American and Soviet crews took place in July 1973 at JSC in Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_us_crew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_10_us_crew_s74-15241.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"240\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"astp_crew_joint_crew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/astp_crew_11_joint_crew_s75-22410.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\"><br>\n<em>Left: The American ASTP crew of Donald K. \u201cDeke\u201d Slayton, left, Vance D. Brand, and<br>\nThomas P. Stafford. Right: The joint ASTP crew of Slayton, Stafford, Brand,<br>\nAleksei A. Leonov, and Valeri N. 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