NASA Publication SP-412 2-volume Apollo Soyuz Test Project Summary ScienceReport

Description: NASA Publication SP-412 2-volume Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Science Report Complete 2-volume set. Books are ex-college library volumes with some cover wear. Internal pages are perfect with no writing or torn pages. All pages are firmly held by the spine. Ships insured Media Mail. Apollo-Soyuz test project. Volume 1 – 581 pages. Astronomy, earth atmosphere and gravity field, life sciences, and materials processing. The joint U.S.-USSR experiments and the U.S. conducted unilateral experiments performed during the Apollo Soyuz Test Project are described. Scientific concepts and experiment design and operation are discussed along with scientific results of postflight analysis. Apollo-Soyuz test project. Volume 2 – 692 pages. Earth observations and photography. Visual observations of the earth are presented along with the corresponding photographs and maps for specific regions. Foreword: International cooperation was the keynote of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. During the 3 years after the project was officially initiated by a US.-U.S.S.R. agreement on May 24,1972, the great effort in coordination, communication, and integration culminated in the highly successful flight from July 15 to 24, 1975. The 9-day flight marked the first time that manned spacecraft of two nations have met in space for joint engineering and scientific investigations. The principal objective of the project was to develop a compatible docking system and rendezvous and crew transfer procedures that might be appropriate for future international manned space missions. This objective was successfully accomplished. An additional objective of major importance was the program of scientific investigations conducted during the mission. A science program was planned by NASA that made abundant use of the experimental opportunities afforded by the mission parameters and spacecraft capabilities. The 2-day docked phase of the flight was used to conduct three experiments that required joint scientific activities within the two spacecraft. Subsequent to the docked phase, two additional joint scientific experiments were conducted that required complicated, precise maneuvering of the Apollo spacecraft relative to, and in the proximity of, the Soyuz spacecraft. The remaining unilateral phases of the mission were likewise used effectively by each country to perform scientific experiments on a unilateral basis. In addition to the five joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. experiments, the Apollo crewmen conducted 23 unilateral experiments. Two of these were provided by the Federal Republic of Germany-a further illustration of the international scope of the mission. Not only was scientific research served by this mission, but worldwide space-science awareness was promoted through extensive home television broadcasting and filming of flight experimentation and in-flight science demonstrations. Volume I of this report discusses the joint experiments and the US.-conducted unilateral experiments. It provides detailed descriptions of the scientific concepts and experiment design and operation, and it presents the scientific results that have accrued from approximately 1 year of postflight analysis. Volume II is devoted to the Earth Observations and Photography Experiment. To meet the objectives of this experiment, the U.S. crewmembers made visual observations and obtained photographs of the Earth. The team of investigators included scientists from several countries and from various fields of Earth science. Earth observations from space rely primarily on the training of crewmembers as scientific observers. The spectrum of conducted observations and the usefulness of the documentary photographs attest to the effectiveness of "trained observers in space" as data gatherers. This report discusses the joint experiments and the US.-conducted unilateral experiments. It provides detailed descriptions of the scientific concepts and experiment design and operation, and it presents the scientific results that have accrued from approximately 1 year of postflight analysis. The scientific value of this international venture will contribute significantly to the development of future international science collaboration on the Space Shuttle flights and other projects.

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