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"An artist's concept depicting a scene in Earth orbit during the Apollo transposition and docking maneuvers of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. The Command/Service Module is moving into position to dock with the Docking Module. Following the docking the DM will be extracted from the expended Saturn IVB stage. The Docking Module is designed to link the American Apollo spacecraft with the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. This scene will take place some one hour and twenty-three minutes after the Apollo-Saturn 1B liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center on July 15, 1975. The Soyuz launch at 7:20 a.m. (CDT) from the Baikonur, Kazakhstan launch pad will precede the Apollo liftoff by seven and one-half hours. The artwork is by Paul Fjeld."

 

Above at:

 

spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo-soyuz/apollo-s...

 

Mr. Fjeld is one of those individuals that people like me are immensely grateful to, for doing what they do and the way they do it! His contributions to capturing & preserving the history and visual spectacle of space flight are diverse and just plain fantastic. A few examples:

 

www.pfinspace.com/

 

gizmodo.com/13-amazing-paintings-of-space-based-on-actual...

Credit: Gizmodo/Attila Nagy

 

www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/002461.html

Credit: collectSPACE website

 

www.ninfinger.org/karld/My Space Museum/q3.htm

Credit: Ninfinger website

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/fjeld.html

Credit: ALSJ website

 

Wouldn't you agree?

 

Thank you Mr. Fjeld!

 

I believe the photo to be authentically signed.

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Uploaded on October 5, 2019