Apollo Soyuz Test Project Press Kit: 20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

Softcover commemorative rebinding, issued for the 1995 anniversary, of the original joint US–USSR press kit distributed for the July 1975 mission. Reproduces the full 1975 kit in facsimile: the General Release (No. 75-118, dated June 10, 1975), historical background, mission objectives, countdown and launch phase, Saturn IB/Apollo vehicle description, mission profile and events, crew transfers, the 28 joint ASTP experiments (Soft X-Ray, Artificial Solar Eclipse, Doppler Tracking, Electrophoresis, Multipurpose Electric Furnace, and others), crew equipment and menus, biographies of Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, and Donald K. Slayton, Apollo Command/Service and Docking Module descriptions, Saturn IB launch vehicle history, tracking and communications, Launch Complex 39, program management by NASA center, and a list of major contractors. Foreword notes the kit was prepared jointly, with separate US and Soviet sections.