Ghosts of Arlington Podcast

#74: Space Stations, Part II


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The first International Space Station was a joint US-USSR mission called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program in 1975 when three astronauts and two cosmonauts spent nearly two days together docked in Earth orbit. It was planned during a thawing of the Cold War but by the time the mission ended, the poticial climate was chilling again and it would be the final time Americans and Russians would shake hands in space for twenty years.

One of the three Americans on this mission was Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, who, at 51-years-old, finally got his first and only chance to go into space, after a heart condition had grounded him for 16 years!

The Space Race series introduction music is Lift Off by kennysvoice.

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