#sa-210

"The Saturn IB space vehicle for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, with its launch umbilical tower, rides atop a huge crawler-transporter as it moves slowly away from the Vehicle Assembly Building on its 4.24-mile journey to Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center."

Date: March 24, 1975

The crawler-transporter rolling out the last Apollo Saturn for Apollo Soyuz Test Program to LC-39B.

Date: March 24, 1975

Workers in the VAB replace the fins on the ASTP Saturn IB’s (SA-210) first stage.

Date: March 11, 1975

ASTP astronauts (left to right) Stafford, Brand and Slayton pose in front of their Saturn IB (CSM-111/SA-210) during the rollout.

Date: March 24, 1975

Workers in the VAB prepare to mate the ASTP (CSM-111) spacecraft with its Saturn IB (SA-210) rocket.

Date: March 18, 1975

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The second stage of the Saturn IB booster for the United States mission on the Apollo Soyuz Test Project was mated with the Saturn IB first stage in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building today. Mating was completed at 9:50 a.m. The U. S. ASTP launch with mission commander Thomas Stafford, command module pilot Vance Brand and docking module pilot Donald Slayton is scheduled at 3:50 p.m. EDT July 15. The first international crewed spaceflight was a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. rendezvous and docking mission. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, or ASTP, took its name from the spacecraft employed: the American Apollo and the Soviet Soyuz. The three-man Apollo crew lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Saturn IB rocket on July 15, 1975, to link up with the Soyuz that had launched a few hours earlier. A cylindrical docking module served as an airlock between the two spacecraft for transfer of the crew members."

Date: January 14, 1975

View of VAB during assembly of Saturn IB Instrument Unit for ASTP flight. SA-210 S-IB stage is seen left, and a Saturn V S-IVB is seen to the rear.

Date: September 26, 1974

"This illustration depicts the launch configuration of the Apollo spacecraft for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). The ASTP was the first international docking of the U.S.'s Apollo spacecraft and the U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz spacecraft in space. A joint engineering team from the two countries met to develop a docking system that permitted the two spacecraft to link in space and allowed the two crews to travel from one spacecraft to the other. This system entailed developing a large habitable Docking Module (DM) to be carried on the Apollo spacecraft to facilitate the joining of two dissimilar spacecraft. The Marshall Space Flight Center was responsible for development and sustaining engineering of the Saturn IB launch vehicle during the mission."

Date: June 1976