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K10611 Official Signed Report of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

File on Absolute World and World Records of the World’s First Joint flight of the Soyuz (USSR) and Apollo (USA) Spacecraft on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (“K” and “K-2” Classes). July 15-19, 1975. Moscow, 1975.

USSR Aerosports Federation / USA National Aeronautical Association: Baykonur, Cape Canaveral, and Moscow, 1975. With Signed Official Flight Reports by Astronauts and Cosmonauts and 36 mounted black and white photographs from the ASTP mission. Folio, Blue leatherette gilt. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by Bob Breaker, Peter Frank, Carl Hess, Kenneth Kleinspecht, Chris Kraft, Glenn Lunney, Sig Sjoberg, and D.K. Slayton. One of two bound in blue from a total edition of 12. The official report prepared by the American and Russian agencies submitted to the Federation Aeronautique International (FAI). The French agency is responsible for maintaining records of aeronautical and astronautical achievements. To claim a record an agency must report all of the technical information relating to the achievement, including verified affidavits. A copy remains in France with the FAI while the other countries involved keep copies of their own. This report contains pre- and post-flight photos, schematics of the two spacecraft, and photographs of the signing of the ”Magna Carta of Space”.

[Reference Index Section, under Apollo Soyuz Test Program (ASTP): “The” Documents]

“The Great Handshake in Space”

Recording the first document signed in space by representative of the first two spacefaring governments.

This exquisitely bound report to the international community exhibits Apollo-Soyuz as the bridge of cooperation that will inspire countless generations to come. “It is remarkable to see the two great nations of the Cold War so completely intertwined, as they are in this report, the languages alternating, and likewise the achievements with the record achievement jointly achieved.” (Sotheby’s Russian History Sale, 1996 Addendum). Not only a space first, this was also a first in international diplomacy, and the first official document signed in space by the representatives of the two most powerful countries on the earth.

Russian and English language governmental report, for submission to the FAI, signed by cosmonauts Alexi Leonov (twice) and Valeri Kubasov (twice), and astronauts Tom Stafford (four times), Vance Brand (twice), and D.K. Slayton (twice), and others, two title pages, in Russian and English, followed by numbered and unnumbered leaves as follow:

1-2: “Card of General Data” (USSR), in Russian (1) and English (2), signed I. G. Borisenko

3-4: “Card of General Data” (USA), in English (3) and Russian (4) signed by Carl Huss.

(Fig. 1) unnumbered leaf: Mounted with a tipped in black and white photograph of the Apollo-Soyuz crew

5-6: “Statement on weighing of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft,” in Russian (5) and English (6), signed I.G. Borisenko and V.N. Bobkov - engineer

7-8: “Apollo spacecraft weighing procedures,” in English (7)and Russian (8)

9-10: Statement of the start of the launch vehicle with the Soyuz (USSR) spacecraft July 15, 1975” in Russian (9) and English (10), signed I.G. Borisenko

(Fig. 2) unnumbered leaf: Mounted black and white photograph-The liftoff of the Soyuz spacecraft
(Fig. 3) unnumbered leaf: Mounted tipped in black and white photograph of the Soyuz crew

11: “Statement on the start of the launch vehicle with the US Apollo spacecraft on July 15, 1795” in English (11) and Russian (12), signed Carl Huss (location of Kennedy Space Center)

(Fig. 4-5) unnumbered leaves: Mounted with tipped-in black and white photographs of the Apollo lift-off and the Apollo crew

13-14: “Statement on the docking in orbit of the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft built by the USA and USSR, total mass of the docked spacecraft, total duration, distance and maximum flight altitude of the spacecraft in a docked mode, as well as duration and distance of the formation flight of the USA and USSR Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft” in Russian (13) and English (14), signed by I.G. Borisenko and Carl Huss

(Fig. 6-8) unnumbered leaves: Mounted with photographs of the Certification of Data and a rendition of the two spacecraft’s docking

15-16: “Timeline of docking crews’ intravehiculars, and joint activities of mixed crews of the USSR and USA Apollo, July 17-19-1975” in Russian (15) and English (16), signed by I.G. Borisenko and Carl Huss

(Fig. 9-14) unnumbered leaves: Mounted with tipped-in photographs of joint activity, the signing of the “Certificate on Docking,” the Certificate, and pictures of Soyuz from Apollo and Apollo from Soyuz.

17-18: “Statement on the landing of the Soyuz (USSR) spacecraft with cosmonauts A.A. Leonov and V.N. Kubasov on board” in Russian (17) and English (18), signed by I.G. Borisenko.

19-20: “Statement on the landing of the US Apollo spacecraft with astronauts T.P. Stafford, V.D. Brand, and D.K. Slayton on board” in English (19) and Russian (20), signed by Carl Huss

21-24: “Report on the Soyuz-19 spacecraft designed for performing the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission” in Russian(21-22) and English (23-24, in which the apparatus is described, signed by V.N Bobkov

(Fig. 15-20) unnumbered leaves: Mounted with tipped-in photographs of the spacecraft, design drawings, docking assembly, and launch vehicle design

25-26: “Report on the arrangement of the USA Apollo spacecraft to be flown for the ASTP mission” in English (25-26) and Russian (27-28), describing the Apollo apparatus

(Fig. 21-24) unnumbered leaves: Mounted with tipped in photographs of design drawings for Apollo

29-30: “Soyuz 19 spacecraft telemetry information” in Russian (29) and English (30) signed by V.G. Kravets - Senior research worker of Space Research Institute of USSR Academy of Sciences

31-34: “Programme [sic] of the joint experimental manned flight of the Soviet and USA spacecraft Soyez and Apollo” in Russian (31-32) and English (33-34): signed by Carl Huss

35-36: “Report of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Soyuz spacecraft commander, colonel Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov on the flight in the Soyuz-19 spacecraft on July 15-21, 1975” in Russian (35) and English (36), in which Leonov describes the flight program, signed by A.A. Leonov “The flight program was fulfilled completely.”

37-38 : Report of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, flight engineer, candidate of technical sciences Valery Nikolayevich Kubasov on the flight in the Soyuz-19 spacecraft on July 15-21, 1975“ in Russian (37) and English (38), signed by V. Kubasov

39: “ASTP Apollo commander’s report” in English (39) and Russian (40), in which General Stafford certifies, “I was aboard the above vehicle at the time it was launched from the Earth’s surface, remained aboard during the period stated herein, and was returned to the Earth’s surface at the location indicated below” signed by Tom Stafford

41-42: “Apollo Crew’s Report” in English (41) and Russian (42), in which the flight is briefly described (“During the mission, the first international rendezvous and docking occurred...”), signed by Tom Stafford, Vance Brand, and D.K. Slayton

43-44: “Brief description of instruments for measuring the orbital parameters” in Russian (43) and English (44), signed by V.D. Blagov - Senior Scientific Worker of SRI, USSR Academy of Sciences

45-46: “Time schedule for the Soyuz-19 spacecraft descent” in Russian (45) and Russian (46)signed by V.D. Blagov.

(Fig. 25) unnumbered leaf: Mounted with a photograph of the soyuz-19 reentry diagram

(pictured twice, with English and Russian captions)

47-48: “Apollo spacecraft (USA) trajectory computations” in English (47) and Russian (48)

49-50: “End of Mission Navigation Report July 25, 1975” in English, describing the Apollo splashdown, unsigned

(Fig. 26) unnumbered leaf: Mounted with a photograph of splashdown date

51-54: “Mission control center operation” in Russian (51-52) and English (53-54), in which the links between Moscow and Houston and Moscow and ground stations are described, signed by A. V. Zorin - Senior Scientific Worker of SRI, USSR Academy of Sciences (First disclosure of location of Russian tracking sites).

(Fig. 27) unnumbered leaf: Mounted with a photograph in which the interaction between Mission Control (USSR) and the USSR’s tracking stations is diagrammed

(Fig. 27-31) unnumbered leaves: Mounted with photographs of the mission control diagram, the five Apollo/Soyuz crew members, the crew members during training, and, as the last image, a romantic artist’s rendering of the two spacecraft docking

Bond in blue leather, stamped in gilt on the upper cover with the title, 12 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.; 314 x 235 mm.

Illustrations #15: First FAI views of preparations of Russian spacecraft

Official Signed FAI Report: Apollo-Soyuz Mission