The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project by Edward Clinton Ezell and Linda Neuman Ezell   Published as NASA Special Publication-4209 in the NASA History Series, 1978.

Page numbers from the original publication are included within the text within square brackets.

Please note: When using the index, a given page can spread over two sub-chapters.

Table of Contents

Library of Congress Card

Foreword

Preface

Notes

List of Illustrations

 

Prologue - The Paine-Keldysh File

Chapter 1 - The Years Before

• Origins of the Office for International Programs
• First Efforts to Establish a Basis for Cooperation
• Competition versus Cooperation: 1959-1962

Chapter 2 - Dryden and Blagonravov

• Khrushchev-Kennedy Letters: February-March 1962
• The First Dryden-Blagonravov Agreement - 1962
• The Kennedy Proposal for a Joint Moon Flight
• The Dryden-Blagonravov Talks - 1964-1965

Chapter 3 - Routes to Space Flight

• The Challenge of Space Flight
• Life Support Systems
• Reentry Vehicles: Spheres vs. Blunt Bodies
• Vostok and Mercury: First Flights Into Space
• Voskhod and Gemini: Intermediate Step
• Soyuz - Development of the Space Station; Apollo - Voyage to the Moon
• The End of the Space Race?

Chapter 4 - Mission to Moscow

• Steps Forward
• Working the Problem

Chapter 5 - Proposal for a Test Flight

• A New Proposal
• Space Station I: Promises and Problems
• Welcome to Houston
• Meeting the Press
• Soyuz 11: Triumph and Tragedy
• After Apollo: What?
• A Study Task Team
• Defining the Docking Module

Chapter 6 - Forging a Partnership

• Preparation in Houston
• Round Three - Moscow
• Issues and Answers
• An International Docking System
• Estimating the Costs of a Mission
• Negotiations by Telephone
• Designing the Interface
• April In Moscow
• Testing the Agreement
• The Nixon-Kosygin Summit

Chapter 7 - Creating a Test Project

• July in Houston
• October in Moscow
• Preliminary Systems Review (Stage 1)
• Compatible Atmospheres
• Thanksgiving in Houston
• Preliminary Systems Review (Stage 2)
• Years of Intense Activity

Chapter 8 - Apollo and Soyuz at Mid-Term

• Mid-Term Review
• A Tour of Soviet Space Facilities
• Public Information Plans
• A Report to Congress

Chapter 9 - Preparing for the Mission

• The 1973 Paris Air Show
• Rivals and Friends
• Spacecraft Familiarization
• Do You Speak Russian?
• Studying in Star City
• Testing Hardware
• Developing Flight Procedures
• Questions about Soyuz
• The Watchdogs Concur
• Soviet Worries About Apollo Minus X Thrusters
• Final Round of Crew Training

Chapter 10 - Final Examinations

• Reviewing Flight Readiness
• Mission Operating Plans - Review
• Guidance and Control - Review
• Docking System - Review
• Communications and Tracking - Review
• Life Support and Crew Transfer - Review
• Reporting on the FRR
• Public Affairs Prepares for the Flight
• New Worries
• Reviewing Apollo Readiness
• Countdown to Launch

Chapter 11 - Come Fly With Us

• 15 July 1975 - Launch
• 16 July - Chase
• 17 July - Rendezvous
• 18 July - Transfers
• 19 July - Exercises
• 20 July - Independent Activities
• 21 July - Farewell
• 22-23 July - Experiments
• 24 July - Last Splash

Epilogue

Sources and Research Materials

Notes on Photography

Appendices

• Appendix A -
• Appendix B -
• Appendix C -
• Appendix D -
• Appendix E -
• Appendix F -

Index

Authors

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To Hugh Latimer Dryden

1898 - 1965

 

and

 

Anatoliy Arkadyevich Blagonravov

1894 - 1975

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