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While this mission is generally remembered as a political/public relations venture, it resulted in some major technological advancements necessitated by the requirement to dock the two extremely variant spacecraft, neither of which had been built for the purpose, together.
The two spacecraft were launched within seven and a half hours of one another, and, three hours after they docked two days later, the Astronauts and Cosmonauts met in the middle ahd shook hands in orbit, exchanged flags and gifts (including the seeds of trees that were later planted in each others' countries) and conversed haltingly with one another in each other's native tongues.
It would be six long years before another American astronaut would fly in space, this time aboard the reusable Space Shuttle. The Apollo era, an era of the greatest achievements in mankind's history, had ended.
Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 Launched: July 15, 1975
Meeting in Space: July 17, 1975
Soyuz 19 Landed: July 21, 1975
Apollo 18 Splashed Down: July 24, 1975
* Apollo 18: 217 hours, 30 minutes
* Soyuz 19: 143 hours, 31 minutes
Orbits: (Apollo 18) 136; (Soyuz 19) 96
* Thomas P. Stafford
* Vance D. Brand
* Donald K. "Deke" Slayton
* Alexei Leonov
* Valeri Kubasov
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
The quote from the page does Not say anything about the Moon Missions.. it says 18 was canceled.. Not that the Apollo 18 moon mission was canceled.
Originally posted by TeoMyster
Whay are we supposed to beleive that? Cause they say it, lol
Originally posted by amcdermott20
Had the OP dug one page deeper he would have answered his own question