Film Soyuz - Apollo. The "Icebreaker" of the Cold War. (2020)
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0:37:12Soyuz - Apollo. The "Icebreaker" of the Cold War (2020)
Annotation:
The Soyuz-Apollo program was the first joint project of the two superpowers. For the era of the "cold War" it was a real fantasy. Time turned back, two irreconcilable competitors shook hands for the first time in the late 1960s. An event that changed the whole course of further history: The USSR and the USA agreed to cooperate. Thus began the era of detente of international tensions.
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The idea of a joint space flight was first expressed at NASA.
In 1970, the director of the agency Thomas Payne wrote to the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mstislav Keldysh.
The main idea is to work out the process of mutual rescue of crews in orbit, learn how to work together and create means capable of interacting with each other.
Working groups were immediately created, which included the best scientists of the two countries, even though space technologies were always accompanied by the "Top Secret" label.
Brezhnev stressed that the USSR stands for peaceful space exploration and for the joint work of crews.
The project had enormous political significance, since no branch of science or industry cooperated with each other, and only the space program was able to overcome this obstacle.
The famous "handshake in space" not only glorified the participants of the flight to the whole world, but also went down in history as the unofficial name of the program, and cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Thomas Stafford became friends for the rest of their lives.
The film stars cosmonauts Alexey Leonov, Alexey Eliseev, Alexander Ivanchenkov, Vladimir Shatalov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, instructor for the Soyuz-Apollo first crew program Vladimir Baranov, replacement flight director for the Soyuz-Apollo program Viktor Blagov, writer Vladimir Gubarev, head of equipment testing for the Soyuz-Apollo program Viktor Pavlov.
Personnel:
Leonov A.A. - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Eliseev A.S. - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Blagov V.D. - Chief Specialist of RSC Energia, designer of spacecraft, coordinator of work on the Soyuz-Apollo, Mir-Shuttle, Mir-NASA, ISS programs. Gubarev V.S. - science fiction writer, playwright, journalist. Ivanchenkov A.S. - Soviet test pilot, cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union. Shatalov V.A. - Soviet cosmonaut, Lieutenant General of Aviation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Kubasov V.N. -- Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of the VNR. Filipchenko A.V. - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Rukavishnikov N.N. -- Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Dzhanibekov (Krysin) V.A. - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Major General of Aviation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, President of the Association of Cosmonautics Museums of Russia. Andreev B.D. - cosmonaut engineer of the Central Design Bureau (CCBEM), reserve lieutenant. Romanenko Yu.V. -- pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Ivanchenkov A.S. - Soviet test pilot, cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union. D.K. Slayton is an American astronaut, test pilot, aviation engineer, Air Force major, deputy Director of NASA for crew training. T.P. Stafford is an American astronaut, fighter pilot, test pilot, Lieutenant General of the Air Force, honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. Brand V.D.V. is an American astronaut, test pilot, aviation engineer, Honorary Doctor of Sciences of the University of Colorado, honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. Fischer D.D. is a colonel in the US Air Force, a NASA astronaut. Brezhnev L.I. - statesman and party leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1966-1982). Ford D.R. (King L.L.) - statesman and politician, 38th President of the United States. Keldysh M.V. - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961-1975), Hero of Socialist Labor three times.
Calendar: 1970s 2015
Locations: Moscow [820] Moscow region [788] Kazakhstan [114] USA [851]