MIT Museum: Flag from the Apollo-Soyuz Rendezvous mission, 1975
The placard reads:
Apollo/Soyuz Mission Patch
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first international docking of spacecraft and provided a basis for a standardized international system for docking of manned spacecraft. On July 17, 1975, the Soyuz spacecraft, with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov, docked with the Apollo spacecraft, and astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Donald Sleyton. The ASTP mission accomplished spacecraft rendezvous, docking and undocking, crew transfer, and demonstrated the interaction of U.S. and U.S.S.R. control centers and spacecraft crews. The ASTP was the last use of a Saturn launch vehicle.
As usual, Wikipedia has more detail, as well as links to things like NASA's 1975 press kit for the mission (PDF), a home page for Apollo-Soyuz mission info, a summary of the mission, and a detailed publication on it from 1978. There's also good info at Zarya .info, including a minute-by-minute chronology of the mission for both spacecraft.
MIT Museum: Flag from the Apollo-Soyuz Rendezvous mission, 1975
The placard reads:
Apollo/Soyuz Mission Patch
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first international docking of spacecraft and provided a basis for a standardized international system for docking of manned spacecraft. On July 17, 1975, the Soyuz spacecraft, with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov, docked with the Apollo spacecraft, and astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Donald Sleyton. The ASTP mission accomplished spacecraft rendezvous, docking and undocking, crew transfer, and demonstrated the interaction of U.S. and U.S.S.R. control centers and spacecraft crews. The ASTP was the last use of a Saturn launch vehicle.
As usual, Wikipedia has more detail, as well as links to things like NASA's 1975 press kit for the mission (PDF), a home page for Apollo-Soyuz mission info, a summary of the mission, and a detailed publication on it from 1978. There's also good info at Zarya .info, including a minute-by-minute chronology of the mission for both spacecraft.